 The Ordinances of 1311 were a series of regulations imposed upon King Edward II by the peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England to restrict the power of the king . The twenty @-@ one signatories of the Ordinances are referred to as the Lords Ordainers , or simply the Ordainers . English setbacks in the Scottish war , combined with perceived extortionate royal fiscal policies , set the background for the writing of the Ordinances in which the administrative prerogatives of the king were largely appropriated by a baronial council . The Ordinances reflect the Provisions of Oxford and the Provisions of Westminster from the late 1250s , but unlike the Provisions , the Ordinances featured a new concern with fiscal reform , specifically redirecting revenues from the king 's household to the exchequer . 
