all offences against them which were not already provided for by the common law; together with numerous technical clauses “for the relief of the grievances that the people have had by reason of the wars that have been, and for the amendment of their estate, and that they may be more ready in the king’s service and more willing to aid him when he has need of them “.  This document was known as Articuli super cartas.[1] At the same time the forest perambulation, which had long been ordered, was directed to be proceeded with at once.  For this reason a chronicler calls this assembly “the parliament of the perambulation".[2] The reconciliation between the king and his subjects was attested by a grant of a twentieth.

    [1] It is published in Bemont’s Chartes, pp. 99-108, with
    valuable comments; another draft analysed in Hist.  MSS. 
    Comm., 6th Report, i., p. 344.

    [2] Langtoft, ii, 320.

Edward’s concessions once more enabled him to face the Scots, and the summer saw a gallant army mustered at Carlisle, though some of the earls, including Roger Bigod, still held aloof.  A two months’ campaign was fought in south-western Scotland in July and August.  But the peasants drove their cattle to the hills, and rainy weather impeded the king’s movements.  The chief exploit of the campaign was the capture of Carlaverock castle, though even in the glowing verse of the herald, who has commemorated the taking of this stronghold,[1] the military insignificance of the achievement cannot be concealed.  Edward returned to the same district in October, but he effected so little that he was glad to agree to a truce with the Scots, which Philip the Fair urged him to accept.  The armistice was to last until Whitsuntide, and Edward immediately returned to England.  He had not yet satisfied his subjects, and was again forced to meet his estates.

    [1] The Siege of Carlaverock, ed.  Nicolas (1828).

A full parliament assembled on January 20, 1301, at Lincoln.  The special business was to receive the report of the forest perambulation; and the first anticipation of the later custom of continuing the same parliament from one session to another can be discerned in the direction to the sheriffs that they should return the same representatives of the shires and boroughs as had attended the Lenten parliament of 1300, and only hold fresh elections in the case of such members as had died or become incapacitated.  During the ten days that the commons were in session stormy scenes occurred.  Edward would only promise to agree to the disafforestments recommended by the perambulators, if the estates would assure him that he could do so, without violating his coronation oath or disinheriting his crown.  The estates refused to undertake this grave responsibility, and a long catalogue of their grievances was presented to Edward by Henry of Keighley, knight of the shire for Lancashire,