The Archbishop is moved to act upon the king's immoral behavior when Edward deposes the Bishop of Coventry, sends him to the Tower, and then turns over his lands to Gaveston. He considers Edward's acts to be a form of violence against the Church itself.
Baldock is scholar who read to the king's niece when she was young and serves her.
A servant to King Edward.
Berkeley is made to take the king from the abbey to his own castle. He does not keep him long, for Mortimer has the king moved to jail, where Matrevis and Gurney are his guards.
It is the Bishop of Coventry who pens the order banishing Gaveston the second time, and for this.....
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