Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II (30 page)

3.
   
Murimouth,
p. 60.

4.
   
Cal. Fine Rolls 1327–1337,
p. 129.

5.
   
Brut,
p. 271 n. 31;
Rot. Parl.
II, p. 52.

6.
   S.C.1./38/195.

7.
   Entries show they were well treated after 1330. See
Cal. Cl. Rolls 1330–1333,
pp. 158–9;
Cal. Pat. Rolls 1330–1334,
pp. 10 and 22.

8.
   
Brut,
p. 270.

9.
   
Brut,
pp. 268–9.

10.
   
Brut,
p. 269;
Rot. Parl.
II, p. 53; ‘Scalacronica’ IV, p. 33.

11.
   
Rot. Parl.
II, p. 53.

12.
   ‘Scalacronica’ IV, p. 35;
Brut,
p. 269.

13.
   Ibid.

14.
   
Brut,
p. 270.

15.
   
Brut,
p. 271; ‘Scalacronica’ IV, p. 35;
Swynbroke,
p. 46.

16.
   
Brut,
p. 271.

17.
   ‘Scalacronica’ IV, pp. 157–8.

18.
   S.C.8/152/7583;
Swynbroke,
p. 46; E/403/255. M.2;
Cal. Pat. Rolls 1330–4,
p. 36.

19.
   
Cal. Cl. Rolls 1330–1333,
pp. 161–2.

20.
   
Rot. Parl.
I, II, pp. 52–3.

21.
   
Murimouth,
p. 62 n. 11.

22.
   
Chronica Monasterii de Melsa
II, p. 360.

23.
   S.C. 1/38/5.

24.
   
Swynbroke,
p. 47;
Murimouth,
p. 62.

25.
   
Rot. Parl.
II, p. 53.

26.
   Rot.
Parl
. II, p. 54.

27.
   Smyth of Nibley,
Lives of the Berkeleys
I, p. 297.

28.
   
Foedera
II, p. 801.

29.
   
Rot. Parl.
II, p. 57.

30.
   Ibid.

31.
   Smyth,
Lives of the Berkeleys
I, p. 297;
Rot. Parl.
II.

32.
   
Foedera
II, p. 960.

33.
   
Cal. Pat. Rolls 1340–1343,
p. 378;
Foedera
III, pp. 56, 146.

34.
   All the details of Edward III’s pursuit of Gurney can be found in Joseph Hunter’s article ‘On the Measures taken for the Apprehension of Thomas Gurney’,
Archaeologia
Vol. 27 (London, 1838), pp. 274–97.

35.
   
Lanercost,
p. 267.

36.
   Payments to the Constable, see
Cal. Cl. Rolls 1330–1333,
p. 434; E/159/108M104.

37.
   
Cal. Fine Rolls 1327–1337,
p. 204; E/103/4/30 M. 4v.

38.
   B. Smalley,
English Friars and Antiquity
(Oxford, 1960), pp. 138–9.

39.
   
Cal. Pat. Rolls 1330–1334,
p. 242.

40.
   
Cal. Pat. Rolls 1330–1334,
pp. 271, 529–30.

41.
   Strickland,
Lives of the Queens of England
I, pp. 535–7.

42.
   Hist. Mss. Comm., 11th Report: Appendix III, pp. 213–19.

43.
   
Murimouth,
pp. 155, 231;
Foedera
II, p. 170.

44.
   This last year and its household book are described by E. A. Bond ‘Notices on the Last Days of Isabella, Queen of Edward II’,
Archaeologia
Vol. 38 (London, 1853/4), PP. 453–9.

45.
   
Knighton
II, p. 100; F. Devon,
Extracts from the Issue Rolls of the Exchequer
(London, 1837), p. 172;
Foedera
II, p. 411.

46.
   
Monumenta Franciscana,
ed. J. S. Brewer (Rolls Series, London, 1858), I, pp. 506, 515;
Lanercost,
p. 267.

47.
   C. L. Kingsford,
The Grey Friars of London
(Aberdeen, 1915), pp. 70–4.

48.
   Ibid.

49.
   The Public Record Office document E/101/393/4 gives an inventory of Isabella’s belongings and mentions this detail.

1.
   Fieschi’s career and pedigree are clearly laid out in a very scholarly article by G. P. Cuttino and Thomas W. Lyman, ‘Where is Edward II?’,
Speculum
Vol. 53 (1978), pp. 522–42. I disagree however, with what they write about the letter, its dating and the evidence of
Swynbroke.
The main thrust of this article is on the architectural controversy surrounding Edward II’s last reputed resting place (which they resolve brilliantly) rather than an analysis of the letter itself or the events of 1326–30.

2.
   M. A. Germain,
Publications de la Société Archaeologique de Montpellier
Vol. 37 (1877), pp. 118–20.

3.
   This summary of the evidence is based, in the main on Cuttino’s article in
Speculum
mentioned in note above.

4.
   
Dictionary of National Biography,
Vol. XIX (Oxford, 1993) p. 632.

5.
   
Foedora
II, p. 783.

6.
   On Fieschi’s career, see
Speculum,
Vol. 53, pp. 539–40.

7.
   McKisack,
The Fourteenth Century,
pp. 273 et seq.

8.
   Cuttino, ‘Where is Edward II?’
Speculum,
Vol. 53, p. 542.

9.
   E/36/203 fos. 178–9, ‘William the Welshman who announced that he was King of England, father of the present King’.

1.
   Walsingham,
Historia Anglicana
I, p. 83.

2.
   Smyth of Nibley,
Lives of the Berkeleys.

3.
   
Brut,
p. 265.

4.
   
Brut,
pp. 265–7.

5.
   Ibid.

A.     
Public Record Office
Chancery
C.47 (Chancery Miscellanea)
C.49 (Parliament and Council)
C.53 (Charter Rolls)
C.61 (Gascon Rolls)
C.62 (Liberate Rolls)
C.81 (Chancery Warrants)

Duchy of Lancaster
D.L.10 (Royal Charters)
D.L.41 (Miscellanea)
D.L.42 (Misc. Books)

Exchequer
E.30 (Diplomatic Documents)
E.101 (King’s Remembrancer, Accounts Various)
E.159 (K. R. Memoranda Rolls)
E.163 (Exchequer Miscellanea)
E.199 (Sheriffs’ Accounts)
E.368 (L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls)
E.403 (Issue Rolls)
E.404 (Warrants for Issue)

Ancient Deeds
Series ‘D’
Series ‘W.S.’

King’s Bench
K.B. 27

Special Collections
SC.1 (Ancient Correspondence)
SC.6 (Ministers’ Accounts)
SC.8 (Ancient Petitions)

B.     
Archives Nationales
Series J : Cartons 356, 403, 408, 631, 633, 654, 655.

C.     
Bibliotheque Nationale
Coll. Brienne, 7007
Coll. Moreau, vol. 255
Fr. MS. Nouvelles Acquisitions, 6999
     MS. 10132 (Chronicle of Thomas Mauberge)
Lat. MSS. 8504

D.     
Bodleian Library, Oxford
MS. Ashmole 794
MS. Douce 128 (French
Brut
)
MS. Lat. Hiat. c.5(R) (Rolls of the King’s daily household expenses, 1308–9)
MS. Tanner 197 (Wardrobe Book, 1311–12)
MS. 751
MS. 956

E.     
British Museum
Add. MSS. 7967
                   15664
                   17362 (Wardrobe Book, 1319–20)
                   22923
                   24459
                   35093
                   35114
Add. Ch. 26684
Cottonian MSS. Julius A.I.
                          Julius E.I.
                          Nero C. VIII (Wardrobe Book, 1310–11
                          Queen’s Wardrobe Book, 1311–12)
                          Nero D.II.
                          Nero D.VI.
                          Nero D.X.
                          Vitellius A.XVI.
                          Vitellius E.X.
MS. Harleian 636 (Polistoire of Christ Church, Canterbury)
Harleian MS. Royal 13.E.IX
Stowe MSS. 553

F.     
Lambeth Palace Library
MS. 242
Register of Walter Reynolds

G.     
MSS. de l’Arsenal de Paris. 3346

H.     
Society of Antiquaries
MSS. 120
          121
          122
          541

I.     
Trinity College, Cambridge
MS. R. 5.41

A   
Chronicles

Adae Murimouth Continuatio Chronicarum,
ed. E. M. Thompson (Rolls Series, London, 1889)

Annales Londonienses,
ed. W. Stubbs (Rolls Series, London, 1882)

Annales Monasticii,
ed. H. R. Luard, IV (Rolls Series, London, 1869)

Annales Paulini,
ed. W. Stubbs (Rolls Series, London, 1882)
Brut,
ed. F. W. D. Brie (Early English Text Society, 1906)

Chronica Gentis Scotorum Johannis de Fordun,
ed. W. F. Skene, I (Edinburgh, 1839)

Chronica Monasterii de Melsa,
ed. E. A. Bond, II (Rolls Series, London, 1867)

The Chronicle of Lanercost,
ed. H. Maxwell-Lyte (Glasgow, 1919)

‘Chronicle of the Civil Wars of Edward II’, ed. G. Haskins,
Speculum,
XIV (1939)

Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough,
ed. H. Rothwell (Camden 3rd Series IXXXIX, 1957)

Chronicon Abbatiae Ramesiensis,
ed. W. Mackay (London, Rolls Series, 1886)

Chronicon Galfredi le Baker de Swynbroke,
ed. E. M. Thompson (Oxford, 1889)

Chronicon Henrici Knighton,
ed. J. R. Lumby, I (Rolls Series, London, 1889)

Chronique de Froissart,
ed. S. Luce, I (Paris, 1869)

Chronique de Jean le Bel,
ed. J. Viard and E. Deprez, I (Société de l’Histoire de France, Paris, 1904)

Chronique de Pays Bas,
ed. J. Smet,
Receuil des Chroniques de Flandre,
II (Brussels, 1856)

Chronique Parisenne Anonyme de 1316 a 1339,
ed. A. Hellot, XI (Memoires de la Société d’Histoire de Paris)

Chroniques de London,
ed. C. J. Aungier (Camden Society, 1844)

Chronographia Regum Francorum,
ed. H. Moranville, I (Société d’Histoire de France, Paris, 1891)

Cronijke Van Nederlandt,
ed. Charles Piot (Brussels, 1897)

Flores Historiarum,
ed. H. R. Luard, III (Rolls Series, London, 1890)

Gesta Edwardi de Caernarvon Auctore Canonico Bridlingtoniensi,
ed. W. Stubbs (Rolls Series, London, 1882–3)

Les Grandes Chroniques de la France,
ed. M. Paulin, V (Paris, 1837)

Historia Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres,
ed. J. Raine, I (Surtees Society, Edinburgh, 1939)

Historiae Anglicanae Decem Scriptores,
ed. R. Twysden (London, 1652)

Historia Roffensis printed in Anglia Sacra,
ed. H. Wharton, I. (London, 1691)

Johannis de Trokelowe et Henrici de Blandeford Chronica et Annales,
ed. H. T. Riley (Rolls Series, London, 1866)

Le Livere de reis de Brittanie,
ed. J. Glover (Rolls Series, London, 1865)

Nicolai Triveti Annalium Continuatio,
ed. A. Hall (Oxford, 1722)
Oeuvres de Froissart,
ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove, II (Brussels, 1867)

The Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden,
ed. C. Babington and J. R. Lumby, VIII (Rolls Series, London, 1865–86)

Receuil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France,
ed. M. de Wailly, XX, XXI (Paris, 1855)

Receuil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France,
ed. M. de Wailly, Delisle et Jourdain, XXII, XXIII (Paris, 1855–76)

Robertus de Avesbury, De Gestis Mirabilibus Regis Edwardi Tertii,
ed. E. M. Thompson (Rolls Series, London, 1889)

‘Scalacronica’, ed. H. R. Maxwell,
Scot. Hist. Rev.
III (1905–6), IV (1906–7)

Vraves Chroniques de Jean le Bel,
ed. M. L. Polain, I (Brussels, 1863)

Walsingham, Thomas,
Historia Anglicana,
ed. H. T. Riley, I (Rolls Series, 1863)

Willelmi Cappellani in Brederode postea Monachi et Procuratoris Egmundensis Chronicon,
ed. C. Pijnacker Hondyk, XX (Historisch Genootschap, 3rd Series, Amsterdam, 1904)

B   
Published and Calendared Documents

Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244–1326

Calendar of Charter Rolls

Calendar of Close Rolls

Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland,
ed. J. Bain, III (Edinburgh, 1887)

Calendar of Fine Rolls

Calendar of Letterbooks Preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London, 1275–1498,
ed. R. Sharpe, Books ‘D’ and ‘E’ (London, 1899–1912)

Calendar of Papal Registers, Letters II 1305–1341

Calendar of Patent Rolls

Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls of the City of London,
ed. A. H. Thomas (Cambridge, 1926)

Cole, H.,
Documents Illustrative of English History in the 13th and 14th Centuries
(London, 1844)

Devon, F.,
Extracts from the Issue Rolls of the Exchequer
(London, 1837)

Eulogium Historiarum,
ed. F. S. Haydon (Rolls Series, London, 1863)

Gesta Abbatum Sancti Albani,
ed. H. T. Riley, II (London, Rolls Series, 1867)

Groot Charterboek de Graaven Van Holland,
ed. F. Mieris, II (Leyden, 1754)

Hardy, T. D.,
Syllabus (in English) of the Documents Relating to England and other Kingdoms contained in the collection known as ‘Rhymer’s Foedera’, I
(London, 1869)

Historical Papers and Letters from Northern Registers
, ed. J. Raine, (Rolls Series, London, 1873)