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XIII.—Documents relating to the death and burial of king Edward II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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The task I have set myself in this paper, a task in which I fear I shall hardly succeed, is to endeavour to wipe away from the pages of our national history one of the foulest blots that stains them, viz., the legend, the unproved rumour, of the hideous detail of the murder of king Edward II. in Berkeley Castle.

I suspect I am not the first inquirer on this subject, for I find the wardrobe account of 1 Edward III. which I shall presently refer to has been “galled,” probably for the purpose of making a copy of it.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1887

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a The original account reads, in place of the words within brackets, as follows:—

vij. dies ut supa xxxv. ix đ.