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From this moment |
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the lords who opposed Edward could be in no doubt |
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that the King intended the conflict to be a fight to the death. |
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And in March 1322, at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire, |
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Edward finally got his revenge for the years of humiliation |
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when his army defeated and captured the Earl of Lancaster. |
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As the greatest chronicler of the reign recalled, |
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"The Earl of Lancaster once cut off Piers Gaveston's head |
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and now by the King's command the Earl himself had lost his head. |
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Thus, perhaps not unjustly, the Earl received measure for measure." |
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Isabella's husband was making very clear the dreadful penalties |
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that now faced anyone who dared to oppose him. |
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England's prisons filled with the wives and children of the rebels, |
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while aristocratic corpses were left to rot on gallows across the country. |