Lancaster Kills His Political Opponents

Thomas Earl of Lancaster found peers Gavistem under arrest and drags him before the court. Meanwhile, Edward II is off throwing down in Scotland. The story is that after a couple of days some Dominican monks got his body, sewed his head back on and kept him safe to give to the king for proper burial. But Lancaster had now done something that had not really been done in England. He had used kind of not real charges to kill a political opponent.