Appointment of the Lord Ordainers 1310

On the 20th of March 1310 charged with devising ordinances to reform the king's fininaces and that of the state, the 21 Ordainers were elected and sworn in at Westminster.1 Six ordinances were issued immediately but the full 41 weren't presented untul August 1311.2

• 1. Phillips, S. Edward II. Yale English Monarchs Series (Yale University Press, 2011). p166.
• 2. McKisack, M. The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399. Oxford History of England (Clarendon Press, 1959). p10.