单词 | the ordainers |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Ordainers 2. English History. Usually as the Ordainers (also Lords Ordainers). A commission of twenty-one barons and bishops appointed on 20 March, 1310, in the third year of Edward II's reign, to draw up ordinances for the improved administration of the kingdom. [Denoted in contemporary documents in Anglo-Norman ordeinours and in post-classical Latin ordinatores (from 1311 in British sources), although this was originally only a descriptive designation, as in sense 1, not a specific title. Not found with specific reference in English either in contemporary writings, or in the 16th cent. chroniclers. Compare: 1310 Let. 17 Mar. in W. Stubbs Chron. Reigns Edward I & Edward II (1882) I. 171 Qe lour poer des ordinours quant as ordinances faire ne dure outre le terme avant dit. 1312 Rolls of Parl. I. 281/1 Que nul Doun de Terre [etc.] se face a nul des ditz Ordeinours durant lour poer del dit ordeinement, ne a nul autre saunz consail et assent des ditz Ordeinours. c1325 in W. Stubbs Chron. Reigns Edward I & Edward II (1883) II. 164 Electi sunt igitur ordinatores de potentioribus et descretioribus totius regni. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > legislator > [noun] > body of legislators > specific commission the Ordainers1750 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 314 An instrument was signed..by eleven bishops, eight earls and thirteen barons, in whom..the power of electing the ordainers was vested. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 256 A committee of eight earls, seven bishops and six barons, who under the title of ordainers were to regulate his household and redress the national grievances. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 329 The Ordainers had not loitered over their work. Six Ordinances had been published and confirmed by the king as early as August 2, 1310. 1882 W. Stubbs Chron. Edward I & II (Rolls) I. 172 Names of the lords ordainers. 1896 T. F. Tout Edward I (ed. 2) iv. 77 That extraordinary combination of power which Earl Thomas, as the head of the Lords Ordainers, was able to bring to bear against Edward II. 1933 Polit. Sci. Q. 48 270 The régime of the Lords Ordainers in the reign of Edward II. 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. III. 210/2 The..ordinances were drawn up by August 1311, and the Ordainers enforced them until Edward won the battle of Boroughbridge. < as lemmas |
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