+Source.+--_Annals of Winchester_, p. 113. (_Annales Monastici_, vol.
ii.--Rolls Series.)
In this year, after the Feast of S. Hilary, when an assembly of all the
prelates and other magnates of the kingdom had been summoned to
Westminster, after the death of the illustrious King Henry, there
gathered together the Archbishops and Bishops, Earls and Barons, Abbots
and Priors, and from every county four knights and from every borough
four, all of whom, in the presence of the lords Walter, Archbishop of
York, Roger Mortimer, and Robert Burnell, clerk, who presided in the
place of the lord Edward, King of England, took an oath to the said lord
Edward as ruler of the land, and undertook to carry out the commands of
the King for the faithful and strict keeping of the peace in the
kingdom. Lord Walter of Merton was appointed Chancellor, to remain at
Westminster, as a place of public resort, until the arrival of the King.
It was further provided that there be no justices itinerant before the
King's arrival, but only justices "de Banco."