Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Problems and sources
- 2 Introduction: The king and the magnates before 1318
- 3 The rise of the Despensers
- 4 The civil war, 1321–2
- 5 The aftermath of the civil war: Imprisonments and executions
- 6 The aftermath of the civil war: Confiscations and the territorial settlement
- 7 Royal finance, 1321–6
- 8 The Despensers' spoils of power, 1321–6
- 9 The defeat in Scotland, 1322–3
- 10 The French war
- 11 The opposition to royal tyranny, 1322–6
- 12 London
- 13 Queen Isabella's invasion and the end of the regime
- 14 Edward II's deposition and ultimate fate
- 15 Epilogue: The regime of Mortimer and Isabella
- Appendix 1 Properties of the Despensers: Main facts and sources
- Appendix 2 The deposition of Edward II
- Notes
- Cited classes of records at the Public Record Office
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 2 - The deposition of Edward II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Problems and sources
- 2 Introduction: The king and the magnates before 1318
- 3 The rise of the Despensers
- 4 The civil war, 1321–2
- 5 The aftermath of the civil war: Imprisonments and executions
- 6 The aftermath of the civil war: Confiscations and the territorial settlement
- 7 Royal finance, 1321–6
- 8 The Despensers' spoils of power, 1321–6
- 9 The defeat in Scotland, 1322–3
- 10 The French war
- 11 The opposition to royal tyranny, 1322–6
- 12 London
- 13 Queen Isabella's invasion and the end of the regime
- 14 Edward II's deposition and ultimate fate
- 15 Epilogue: The regime of Mortimer and Isabella
- Appendix 1 Properties of the Despensers: Main facts and sources
- Appendix 2 The deposition of Edward II
- Notes
- Cited classes of records at the Public Record Office
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
An account of the deposition of Edward II taken from a chronicle, probably from Canterbury, now Trinity College, Cambridge, Ms., R.5.41 fs. 125r, 125V, 126r.
f. 125r.
Item secundo Nonis Januarii Regina Anglie venit Londonias. Cui processerunt obviam Londonienses in magna solemnitate.
Parliamentum londoniis Rege absente. Eodem tempore VII° Idibus Januarii incepit parliamentum londoniis absente rege in presencia Regine et filii sui ubi londonienses fecerunt sibi iurare Episcopos, Comites et Barones similiter et milites et quotquot ibi erant et Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis, antequam voluerunt ipsum in amicitiam, recipere optulit eis L dolia vini et postea iuramentum fecit. In isto parliamento ex unanimi assensu Episcoporum et procerum et totius populi depositus est dominus Edwardus Rex Anglie secundus a gubernacione terre sue et filius suus primogenitus Edwardus dux Acquitannie subrogatus est ut sequitur.
Forma deposicionis Regis Edwardi Anglie post Conquestum Secundi. Memorandum quod die sancti Hillarii Episcopi et confessoris Anno dominice Incarnacionis MCCCXXVII.° In parliamento apud Westmonasterium prelatorum et procerum fere totius regni mutuo tractatu prehabito in palacio regio in aula magna Westmonasterii acta sunt hec subscripta coram prelatis et magnatibus regni in communi aula convenientibus prelibata. Primo dominus Rogerus Mortimer, cui dictum fuerat ex parte magnatum quod illud quod ordinatum fuerat populo pronunciaret, se excusavit dicendo se non debere culpari de iure super huiusmodi pronunciacione pro eo quod communi omni assensu sibi fuerat hoc iniunctum.
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- The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321–1326 , pp. 233 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979