[197] A Parliament of the three Estates at Northampton, 13th Oct., 1307, granted him an aid on the event of his marriage and coronation, and for the burial of Edward I. The clergy granted a fifteenth, the towns a fifteenth, and the barons and knights a twentieth of movables. 1 Rot. Parl. 442.
[198] 1 Rot. Parl. 443-445.
[199] The second article is given in translation in Hall, 1 History of the Customs, Appendix, 208.
[200] 1 Rot. Parl. 446-447.
[201] Translation given in Adams and Stephens, Sel. Doc. 93.
[202] 2 Stubbs, Const. Hist. Eng. 340, note 1, and citations.
[203] 1 Rot. Parl. 281-286.
[204] Translation given in Adams and Stephens, Sel. Doc. 93-94.
[205] 2 Stubbs, Const. Hist. Eng. 345 and note 2, with citations.
[206] Edward, despite the ordinance banishing Gaveston, in January, 1312, recalled him. But the restoration was fatal to the favorite. Thomas of Lancaster intercepted him on his way back to London and murdered him. Gaveston was avenged, however, in 1322, when Edward for the moment securing the upper hand, took Lancaster and beheaded him.