Example sentences of "of edward [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a measure of Edward II 's loss of control of his family that a matter as important as his heir 's marriage could be arranged without his prior knowledge or consent . |
| 2 | Men from Ponthieu were also prominent among those who played a part in the worsening of English relations with the French monarchy in the latter part of Edward II 's reign and the early part of Edward III's . |
| 3 | Although the new burgesses then exceeded the re-elected ones , by the first parliament of Edward II 's reign , at Michaelmas 1307 , the reverse was true . |
| 4 | Clerical representatives , after all , sat in it almost as often as their lay counterparts who consented to lay subsidies : in seventeen out of the nineteen of Edward II 's parliaments to which knights and burgesses were summoned there were also clerical proctors present . |
| 5 | During the political unrest of Edward II 's reign , Eastry sought to restore tranquillity to the realm . |
| 6 | On 19 March Pope John XXII reserved the see for John of Puzzuoli , chaplain of Edward II 's queen , Isabella [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | He appears sympathetic to the regime of Edward II 's last years and clearly distrusted the baronial opposition in 1321 . |
| 8 | The King married Elizabeth of York , the eldest daughter of Edward IV 's children , and he built , in 1501 , the Manor beside the River Thames at ‘ Shene ’ which became Richmond Palace where , in due course , the nineteen year old Henry VIII was to spend part of the honeymoon ( 1509 ) of his first marriage . |
| 9 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 10 | A third was a member of Edward IV 's household , Christopher Worsley , a marshall of the hall , who had been sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1470 and whose links with Gloucester are unknown . |
| 11 | Also involved in the arrest was the duchy official Robert Harrington , whose brother James was one of Edward IV 's knights . |
| 12 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 13 | In the context of Edward IV 's reign , in which the retinue was created , neither assumption is true . |
| 14 | Most of Edward IV 's servants had accepted Gloucester 's appointment as protector and were prepared to acquiesce in his attack on the Woodvilles . |
| 15 | Robert Pemberton , used by Gloucester to seize Woodville land , had been one of Edward IV 's ushers of the chamber ( a post he was also to hold under Richard III ) and had been appointed by the queen as parker and warrener of Higham Ferrers ( Northants ) in 1468 . |
| 16 | In the duchy of Cornwall ( part of the patrimony of the prince of Wales ) , Rivers ' office of receiver went to John Sapcote , one of Edward IV 's esquires of the body , who had been active in the Fitzwarin estates in the south west since at least 1477 . |
| 17 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 18 | He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth . |
| 19 | On top of this military expenditure , the government had to find the cost of Edward IV 's funeral ( £1,886 ) and the cost of Edward V 's coronation , now rescheduled for 22 June . |
| 20 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 21 | Within three months of Edward IV 's death , therefore , his brother had deposed his son and taken the throne for himself . |
| 22 | Inevitably it had its roots in the previous reign and some of Edward IV 's actions made their contribution to events after his death . |
| 23 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 24 | The other ally whom Gloucester gained as a result of Edward IV 's policies was to prove an altogether more dubious asset . |
| 25 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |
| 26 | ( The buying off of Edward IV 's 1475 expedition was in the same tradition . ) |
| 27 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 28 | A third was a member of Edward IV 's household , Christopher Worsley , a marshall of the hall , who had been sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1470 and whose links with Gloucester are unknown . |
| 29 | Also involved in the arrest was the duchy official Robert Harrington , whose brother James was one of Edward IV 's knights . |
| 30 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |