swuklink: The Provisions of Oxford

The provisions of Oxford were ordinances passed by the Mad Parliament which met there in June of 1258 and led to a limited monarchy with the King's authority being exercised by a body of magnates.

A Council of Fifteen was appointed to advise the King.

A Council of Twevle was to meet the Council of Fifteen (i.e.: Parliament was to meet) three times every year.

A Council of Twenty-four was to make grants to the King - that an account of public moneys shuld be rendered.

The original twenty-four were to organise the King's household and the church.

Four knights should be chosen from each district to set forth the grievances of their district.

The aliens were to be expelled and royal castles were to be surrendered into the control of English governors.

Although the great magnates alone had power, there was no display of the distruptive tendency which had previously posed a great danger from the Norman barons.

The aliens were expelled; the Savoyards left voluntarily; the Poitevins were driven out by force.

The settlement led to the division of the barons.

The Provisions of Oxford made during the reign of Henry III in 1258 was the first public document since the Norman conquest to be issued in English.

The Provisions of Oxford was annulled by the Award of Amiens in 1294.

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