Edward III

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.

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 by the Parliament, 5 E.

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 statutes of 18 Edward I.

This fact is recognized by a statute made at Westminster, in 1346, by Edward III.

For [45] the true sense and exposition of these words, see the statute of 37 Edw.

Hereafter, I shall have occasion to point out that this was the rule on which our Edward III.

The claim of 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.

Thorpe (arg.

All the authorities on the subject, I believe, are collected in this excellent book.

42 Ed. III, 4, pl. 14 ad fin. (the text as printed is not free from difficulty).