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28
Edward’s presence in Exeter was probably occasioned by the recent scandal there. D. Douie,
Archbishop Pecham
(Oxford, 1952), 302–4.
29
AM
, ii, 403;
PROME
, 46; Prestwich,
Edward I
, 323.
30
Ibid.; E. Gemmill, ‘The King’s Companions: The Evidence of Royal Charter Witness Lists from the Reign of Edward I’,
Bulletin of the
John Rylands University Library
, 83 (2001), 145.
31
J. R. Strayer,
The Reign of Philip the Fair
(Princeton, 1980), 3 5–6, 12.
32
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 255–6; Prestwich,
Edward I
, 323.
33
Ibid.; Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 290–1. For
ardua negocia
, see
PROME
, 45; also Guisborough, 223 (
quibusdam arduis corrigendis)
.
34
Strayer,
Reign of Philip the Fair, 6
, 10–11; Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 256–7.
35
Ibid., 253.
36
Crouch,
Tournament
, 37, 45, 77; Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 248.
37
Foedera
, I, ii, 668–70.
38
Ibid., 672–3; Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 291.
39
Lunt,
Financial Relations
, 338.
40
J.-P. Trabut-Cussac, ‘Itinéraire d’édouard Ier en France, 1286–89’,
BIHR
, 25 (1952), 166–73.
41
Ibid., 174–5;
Rôles Gascons
, ed. Francisque-Michel and C. Bémont, iii, xlv;
RWH
, nos. 73, 853.
42
Ibid., nos. 575, 824–6.
43
Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes
, ed. Ellis, 246–7, gives the date as ‘the first week in Lent’, but Edward is too mobile down to Easter for this to have been the case. For the true date, see
RWH
, no. 255.
44
Unless 1287 was a bumper year for indoor near-death experiences, Trivet, 313, is probably describing the same incident. For other vague reports, see
AM
, ii, 404;
Flores
, iii, 65–6.
45
RWH
, nos. 827–9; Lunt,
Financial Relations
, 338.
46
Trabut-Cussac, ‘Itinéraire’, 177–9; For Blanquefort’s acquisition, see idem,
L’Administration
, 15, 38. Two English chroniclers say Edward took the cross there:
Flores
, iii, 65–6; Trivet, 314. Another says he recovered there and took the cross at Bordeaux:
AM
, ii, 404. See also R. R. Mundill,
England’s Jewish Solution: Experiment and Expulsion, 1262–1290
(Cambridge, 1998), 85–6.
47
Lunt,
Financial Relations
, 338–9n; Tyerman,
England and the Crusades
, 235.
48
RWH
, nos. 289, 341, 575.
49
Ibid., nos. 429, 958, 967–8, 979, 987.
50
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 259.
51
Ibid., 259–60.
52
Trabut-Cussac, ‘Itinéraire’, 181–4;
RWH
, no. 543, 1082; Prestwich,
Edward I
, 330.
53
Ibid., 324; Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 259n; Trabut-Cussac, ‘Itinéraire’, 185.
54
Ibid., 187–9.
55
M. W. Beresford,
New Towns of the Middle Ages: Town Plantation in England, Wales and Gascony
(London, 1967), 351–9.
56
Ibid., 8–9, 149–50, 166–7, 584.
57
Ibid., 359–62.
58
Ibid., 191, 234–6.
59
Ibid., 30, 99–102, 362, 584.
60
Ibid., 29, 79, 83–5, 363–72.
61
Ibid., 35–51.
62
Ibid., 51, 58–60, 96, 427–8, 445–6. For Edward’s other unsuccessful urban initiatives, ibid., 83.
63
Ibid., 6, 14–15, 19, 28–9;
EHD
, iii, 799–800. For the fullest treatment, see D. and B. Martin,
New Winchelsea, Sussex
(2004).
64
Beresford,
New Towns of the Middle Ages
, 270, 338, 593–4, 597.
65
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 260.
66
Trabut-Cussac, ‘Itinéraire’, 191–3.
67
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 260, 282–3; Trabut-Cussac, ‘Itinéraire’, 193–4.
68
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 284. J.-L. Blanc and J.-F Massie, ‘Le Castera de Bonnegarde’,
Extrait du Bulletin de la Société de Borda
(1977), 1–22; Beresford,
New Towns of the Middle Ages
, 187.
69
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 284;
RWH
, nos. 1730, 1757–8, 1779, 2012, 2665–71, 2774, 3229.
70
Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 261, 263, 298–304; Trabut-Cussac, ‘Itinéraire’, 201.
71
Davies,
Age of Conquest
, 380–1, Morris,
Welsh Wars
, 205–19; Kaeuper,
Bankers
, 195–9;
RWH
, 423–98.
72
DNB
, xlvi, 618.
73
CCR, 1272–79
, 493.
74
Prestwich,
Edward I
, 13.
75
NHI
, 67–141, 241–3, 441–4.
76
Ibid., 156–75.
77
Ibid., 179–84, 244–51.
78
S. Duffy,
Ireland in the Middle Ages
(Basingstoke, 1996), 129.
79
Powicke,
Henry III
, 700–1; Davies,
Empire
, 101–2, 146, 148.
80
Ibid., 108;
NHI
, 242, 271, 346, 394.
81
DNB, xi
, 768; R. Frame, ‘The Justiciar and the Murder of the MacMurroughs in 1282’,
Irish Historical Studies
, xviii (1972), 223–30.
82
DNB
, xi, 768; Duffy,
Ireland in the Middle Ages
, 129;
NHI
, 259.
83
Salzman,
Edward I
, 87.
84
Stacey, ‘Expulsion’, 78–9. The remainder of this chapter draws heavily on Prof. Stacey’s reconstruction of events.
85
Ibid., 79–80;
CCR, 1279–88
, 547.
86
In general, see D. W. Sutherland,
Quo Warranto Proceedings in the Reign
of Edward I, 1278–1294
(Oxford, 1963).
87
Guisborough, 216; Prestwich,
Edward I, 262
.
88
Stacey, ‘Expulsion’, 81.
89
The Mirror of Justices
, ed. W. J. Whittaker (Selden Society, vii, 1895), 6–8; Powicke,
Thirteenth Century
, 520–1; Powicke,
Henry III
, 701–2; M. Morris, ‘The King’s Companions’,
History Today
, 55 (December 2005), 55; Guisborough, 216.
90
Stacey, ‘Expulsion’, 81–2;
AM
, iv, 316.
91
Stacey, ‘Expulsion’, 83–4;
EHD
, iii, 463; P. A. Brand, ‘Edward I and the Judges: the “State Trials” of 1289–93’,
TCE
, i (1986), 31–40.
92
Stacey, ‘Expulsion’, 86–7;
EHD
, iii, 464–6.
93
Salzman,
Edward I
, 92; below, 234.
94
Stacey, ‘Expulsion’, 88, 90.
95
Ibid., 95–9; cf. Mundill,
England’s Jewish Solution, passim
.
96
Parsons,
Eleanor of Castile
, 61, 119–20, 176, 252.
97
Ibid., 120–1.
98
Huscroft,
Expulsion
, 131–2, 154.
99
Ibid., 133, 144–7.
100
Ibid., 146.
101
Stacey, ‘Expulsion’, 89–90.
102
Huscroft,
Expulsion
, 147–8; Mundill,
England’s Jewish Solution
, 299–301.

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