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Statute of York
(1322)
| Whereas our lord King Edward, son of King Edward, on March 16, in the third
year of his reign, granted to the prelates, earls, and barons of his realm
... ; and whereas the archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England,
and the bishops, earls, and barons chosen for the purpose, drew up certain
ordinances that begin as follows ... , which ordinances our said lord the
king caused to be rehearsed and examined in his parliament at York three
weeks after Easter in the fifteenth year of his reign ...; and whereas,
through that examination in the said parliament, it was found that by the
ordinances thus decreed the royal power of our said lord the king was
wrongfully limited in many respects, to the injury of his royal lordship and
contrary to the estate of the crown; and whereas, furthermore, through such
ordinances and provisions made by subjects in times past against the royal
authority of our lord the king's ancestors, the kingdom has incurred
troubles and wars, whereby the land has been imperilled: [therefore] it is
agreed and established at the said parliament by our lord the king, by the
said prelates, earls, and barons, and by the whole community of the realm
assembled in this parliament, that everything ordained by the said Ordainers
and contained in the said ordinances shall henceforth and forever cease [to
be valid], losing for the future all title, force, virtue, and effect; and
that the statutes and establishments duly made by our lord the king and his
ancestors prior to the said ordinances shall remain in force. And [it is
decreed] that henceforth and forever at all times every kind of ordinance or
provision made under any authority or commission whatsoever by subjects of
our lord the king or of his heirs against the royal power of our lord the
king or of his heirs, or contrary to the estate of the crown, shall be null
and shall have no validity or force whatever; but that matters which are to
be determined with regard to the estate of our lord the king and of his
heirs, or with regard to the estate of the kingdom and of the people, shall
be considered, granted, and established in parliament by our lord the king
and with the consent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and of the
community of the kingdom, as has been accustomed in times past.
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