As I have written earlier, the glorious king Edward handed over his crown to his firstborn son, Edward of Windsor. When the news of this had been established as certain, the magnates and prelates of the kingdom in a parliament at London immediately gave their consent to Edward, the firstborn son of Edward, as king, and had him crowned by Walter Reynolds, the archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster on 1 February. He was a young man of about thirteen, and one who found favour with God and the whole world. At the great ceremony of his coronation there were present as many foreigners as Englishmen, particularly the mercenaries of queen Isabella his mother, whom, as I have said, she herself had invited from Hainault and Germany. The new king was crowned with the crown of St Edward, the confessor [35]. Although the crown was large and of considerable weight, the new king wore it in a manly fashion so that those, who had an adequate idea of how young the boy was and how large and heavy the crown, marvelled at it. On the same day the three sons of Roger Mortimer and many others were made knights .

On the eve of the feast of St Nicholas in this year master James Berkeley was unanimously elected bishop of Exeter and consecrated in Canterbury on the middle Sunday in Lent.