[1] [2] The ambassadours with this answer returning to London, Polydor. declared the same vnto all the states, in or|der as they had receiued it, whervpon great ioy was made of all men, to consider that they might now by course of law proceed to the choosing of a new king. And so thervpon the nine and twentith day of Ianu|arie in session of parlement then at Westminster assembled, was the third king Edward, sonne to king Edward the second, chosen and elected king of England, by the authoritie of the same parlement, first (as before is said) confirmed by his fathers resig|nation: and the first day of his reigne they agréed to be the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie, in the yeare 1326 after the account of the church of England, be|ginning the yeare the fiue & twentith day of March, but by the common account of writers, Merimuth. it was in the yeare 1327. ¶ On the same daie sir William Trus|sell procurator for the whole parlement did renounce the old king in name of the whole parlement, with all homages and fealties due to him, so that the same fiue and twentith day of Ianuarie hath béene repu|ted and taken for the first day of the beginning of king Edward the third his reigne, so that whatsoe|uer chanced before that day, is ascribed to be doone during the reigne of his father.