Long before this England had been relieved from the presence of the legate. In 1220 Langton had gone to Rome and obtained a promise that so long as he lived no other legate should be sent to England. Pandulf seems to have regarded the promise as implying his own recall. He was weary of his post; and having obtained his election to the see of Norwich, resigned in July 1221. Before the end of the year 1224 the able hand of Hubert de Burgh had shaken off the three dangerous influences; he had reclaimed England for the English. But he had done it at considerable cost of taxation. This the country was ill able or disposed to bear, and the alarm of war was sounding on the side of France, where Lewis succeeded his father in 1223. It was in order to obtain from the nation a grant of money to defray these expenses and to equip an army that Henry, under Hubert’s advice, for the third time confirmed the charter. But, although these were the special occasions of the re-issue, the confirmation itself is a typical act, and might be regarded as the renewed good omen of a happy reign. Most of the hereditary enemies of Henry were dead; all foreign influences were banished; the right of the nation to sound and good government was recognised by the charter itself. The general acquiescence in the policy of the administration was shown by the grant of a fifteenth of all movable property to the king, which was made conditional on the confirmation of the charter, and the national union was proved by the long list of prelates and magnates who attested it. Henry, by altering the terms in which he enacted it from the older form, “by the council” of his barons, to “by my spontaneous will,” seemed to be giving more than a mere official ratification--a personal and sincere adhesion to the great formula of the constitution. [Sidenote: Henry in 1227.]