Financial exhaustion in Scotland brought Edward II back to a Parliament ready with forty-one reform clauses. The Ordinances required Parliament to meet annually and denied the king freedom to wage war, leave the realm, or appoint his administration without consent. They also demanded the removal of unsuitable advisers, making the monarch answerable in practice to the political community of the nobility. Clause twenty condemned Gaveston as an evil influence who had appropriated offices, lands, and royal dignity. Edward tried to save that one clause, accepted all forty-one under pressure, and then revoked the settlement after Gaveston quickly returned.
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The forty-one Ordinances limit Edward II
The 1311 Ordinances required annual Parliaments and noble consent over war, travel, and appointments before singling out Gaveston for permanent exile.