Lords Appellants
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Five peers who for a time superseded Richard II. in bis government, and whom, after a brief control of the government, he in turn superseded in 1897, und put the survivors of them to death. Richard II.’s cighteen commissioners (twelve peers and six commoners) took their place, as an embryo privy council acting with full powers, during the parliamentary recess, Brown.