Edward III
historical figure · 5 works · 22 mentions · 35 anchored passages
King Edward the Third · Edward III. · 1 Edward III · 25th year of the reign of King Edward the Third · 28 Edward III · 28th year of the reign of King Edward the Third · 29 E. 3 · E. 3 · Ed. 3 · Ed. III
spoken of as
1 expressionEdward III of England2 mentions
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (English) · Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
of England, who held the English Crown by an independent title, was a Capetian through his mother, Isabel, the ‘she-wolf of France’ of Gray’s well-known Ode.
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
King Edward III, who in 1373 ordered bridge repairs in Oxfordshire in connection with royal falconry.
commanded the sheriff of Oxfordshire to declare that all bridges must be repaired and all fords marked out with stakes, for the crossing of the King “with his falcons” during the approaching winter.
at last extended to the Crown the same measure of “reasonableness” as had been applied three–quarters of a century earlier to mesne lords.
announces to all sheriffs that William of Walsingham had a commission to collect as many painters as might suffice for ‘our works in St.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Medieval King of England invoked as a precedent for Parliament conditioning a subsidy on the King's conduct of war.
for he pretending to make a war, as now our King doth, he did desire subsidies from his subjects, and they, before they would grant it, did capitulate with him, and you shall find by the very Act itself, which was in the twenty-second year of his reign, that they did grant him a subsidy, and but one;
And whereas also by authority of Parliament, in the 25th year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, that no man shall be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the Great Charter, and the law of the land:
And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by authority of Parliament, that no man of what estate or condition that he be, should be put out of his lands or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to death, without being brought to answer by due process of law:
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
King under whom statutes explaining and confirming the law of the land were enacted.
This fact is recognized by a statute made at Westminster, in 1346, by Edward III.
Because that by divers complaints made to us, we have perceived that the law of the land, which we by oath are bound to maintain,” &c.
For [45] the true sense and exposition of these words, see the statute of 37 Edw.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
English king whose claim to the French throne is used as an illustration of a daughter transmitting succession rights to her son.
Hereafter, I shall have occasion to point out that this was the rule on which our Edward III.
of England, who held the English Crown by an independent title, was a Capetian through his mother, Isabel, the ‘she-wolf of France’ of Gray’s well-known Ode.
, who left a daughter, an Assembly of Notables, which is sometimes described as the States-General of France, had resolved that the French Crown descended exclusively to males and through males.
The Genius of the Common Law
Fourteenth-century English king whose regnal years date several Year Book citations in the footnotes.
All the authorities on the subject, I believe, are collected in this excellent book.
Thorpe (arg.
42 Ed. III, 4, pl. 14 ad fin. (the text as printed is not free from difficulty).