| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/K/11 |
| Title | Ordinances |
| Date | [early 14th century] |
| Description | Ordinances for the reform of the government of the kingdom and the household of Edward II (42 articles), prefaced by a copy of the king's commission to the ordainers, dated 16 Mar 1310. The text is in French, with Latin headings. The ordinances were published in St Paul's churchyard, London, on 27 Sep 1311 by Simon [of Ghent], bishop of Salisbury, at the command of Robert [Winchelsey], archbishop of Canterbury. Copy of a sealed enrolment kept in the cathedral treasury.
On reverse, letter from Archbishop Winchelsey and other bishops and nobles concerning the election of the ordainers and their terms of reference, dated at London 17 Mar 1310, details of the elections of the ordainers and the form of oath to be taken by them, a copy of the second ordinances (34 articles) and forms of the coronation oath to be used if the king is 'literatus' (in Latin) or 'illiteratus' (in French). The text of the second ordinances is one of only 3 known copies (others listed in Wilkinson, cited below).
No date. [Date: handwriting and date of ordinances.] |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 4 sheets stitched together to form one long one (originally a roll), dirty, slight damage to edges of 1st and 2nd membrane |
| Language | French; Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised part |
| Related Material | Another version of the ordinances discussed: Appendix to First Report of Record Commissioners, Reports of the Commissioners of Public Records (1800-1819), p184
Enrolled version of ordinances (transcription and translation): Statutes of the Realm I (1810), pp157-167 |
| Publication Note | Second Ordinances noted in B Wilkinson, 'The Ordinances of 1311' in Studies in the Constitutional History of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries ('Manchester University Press, 1937), p235, n3
Noted, summarised and partly transcribed in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, pp431, 455 |