He had been an intimate favourite of Edward II. and had been removed, with others, from that king's service in 1311. Notwithstanding this, he appears as the king's Chamberlain in 1316. Ten years later, when the city was in the hands of an infuriated mob, and the king confined at Kenilworth, John de Charleton took the Earl of Arundel prisoner and caused him to be beheaded. In 1329 the citizens received peremptory orders from Edward III, not to harbour him in the city.—Chron. Edward I & II. i, 247.
Pleas and Mem., Roll A 1, membr. 24.
Pleas and Mem., Roll A 1, membr. 24.
Letter Book E, fo. 183. (Memorials, p. 169.)
"In 1333 they were again established in England, but merchants ignored them, and in the following year they were abolished. From 1344 onwards they are frequently discussed in parliament and assemblies of the merchants; and by the statute of 1353 the system was consolidated."—Stubbs, Const. Hist., ii, 412.
Letter Book G. fos. 35b, 76.
Rymer's Fœdera (1821), vol. ii, pt. ii. p. 765.
Chron. Edward I and II, i, 247, 249.
Chron. Edward I and II. i, 249, 251.
Rymer's Fœdera (1821), vol. ii, pt. ii, p. 815.