our summon for the debt which the dead man did owe to us, it shall be lawful to our Sheriff or Bailiff to attach and inroll all the goods and chattles of the dead, being found in the said fee, to the value of the same debt, by the sight and testimony of lawful men, so that nothing thereof shall be taken away, until we be clearly paid off the debt; and the residue shall remain to the Executors to perform the testament of the dead; and if nothing be owing unto us, all the chattles shall go to the use of the dead, saving to his wife and children their reasonable parts.

ΧΙΧ.

No Constable nor his Bailiff, shall take corn or any other chattles of any man, if the man be not of the Town where the Castle is, but he shall forthwith pay for the same, unless that the will of the seller was to respite the payment, and if he be of the Town, the price shall be paid unto him within forty days.

XX.

No Constable shall distrain any Knight for to give money for keeping of his castle, if he himself will do it in his proper person, or cause it to be done by another sufficient man, if he may not do it himself for some reasonable cause. And if we do lead or send him in an army, he shall be free from Castleward for the time that he shall be with us in fee in our host, for the which he hath done service in our wars.

XXI.

No Sheriff or Bailiff of ours or any other, shall take the Horses or Carts of any man to make carriage, except he pay the old price limited, that is to say, for carriage with two horses, X. d. a day; for three horse, XIV. d. a day. No Demesne cart of any spiritual person or Knight, or any Lord, shall be taken by our

Service, we will not have the custody of his Heir, or of his Land, which is holden of the Fee of another, by reason of that Feeferm, Socage, or Burgage. Neither will we have the custody of such Feeferm, Socage, or Burgage, except Knight's Service be due unto us out of the said Feeferm. We will not have the custody of the Heir, or of any Land which he holds of another by Knight's Service, by occasion of any Petit Sergeantry, that any man holdeth of us by Service to pay a knife, an arrow, or the like.

XXVIII.

No Bailiff from henceforth shall put any man to his open Law, nor to an Oath, upon his own bare saying, without faithful Witnesses brought in for the same.

XIX.

No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his Freehold, or Liberties, or Free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; and we will not pass upon him nor condemn him, but by lawful judgement of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man, either Justice or Right.

XXX.

All Merchants, if they were not openly prohibited before, shall have their safe and sure Conduct to depart out of England, to come into England, to tarry in and go through England, as well by Land as by Water, to buy and sell without any manner of evil Tolts, by the old and rightful Customs, except in time of War. And if they be of a land making War against us, and be found in our Realm at the beginning of the Wars, they shall be attached without harm of body or of goods, until it be known to us, or our Chief

tores terre nostre tractentur qui tunc inveniuntur in terra illa contra nos guerrina; et si nostri salvi sint ibi, alii salvi sint in terra nostra.

XXXI.

Si quis tenuerit de aliqua escaeta sicut de honore Walingfordi, Belonie, Nottingham, Lancastrii vel aliis escaetis que sunt in manu nostra et sint Baroni, et obierit, heres ejus non det aliud relevium nec faciat nobis aliud servicium quam facerit Baroni, si illa esset in manu Baronis; et nos eodem modo eam tenebimus quo Baro eam tenuit. Nec nos occasione talis Baronii vel escaeta habebimus aliquam escaetam vel custodiam aliquorum nostrorum hominum nisi de nobis alibi tenuerit in capite ille qui tenuit baroniam vel escaetam.

XXXII.

Nullus liber homo det de cetero amplius alicui vel vendat de terra sua quam ut de residuo terre sue sufficientur possit fieri domino feodi servitium ei debitum quod pertinet ad feodum illud.

XXXIII.

Omnes patroni Abbathiarum qui habent cartas regum Anglie de advocatione vel antiquam tenuram vel possessionem habeant earum custodiam cum vacaverint, sicut habere debent et sicut superius declaratum

est.

XXXIV.

Nullus capiatur aut imprisonetur propter appellum femine de morte alterius quam viri sui.

XXXV.

Nullus Comitatus de cetero teneatur nisi de mense in mensem, et ubi major terminus esse solebat major

If any man hold of any Eschete, as of the honour of Wallingford, Nottingham, Boloin, or of any other Eschetes which be in our hands, and are Baronies, and die, his heir shall give none other relief, nor do none other service to us than he should to the Baron, if it were in the Baron's hand; and we in the same wise shall hold it as the Baron held it; neither shall we have by occasion of any Barony or Eschete, any Eschete or keeping of any of our men, unless he that held the Barony or Eschete, elsewhere held of us in chief.

MAGNA CARTA sit.

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Nec aliquis Vice comes vel 25 EDWARD I. Ballivus suus faciat turnum suum per Hundredum nisi bis in anno, et non nisi in loco debito et consueto,videlicet semel post Paschum et iterum post festum sancti Michaelis. Et visus de franco plegio tunc fiat ad illum terminum sancti Michaelis sine occasione. Ita scilicet quod quilibet habeat libertates suas quas habuit vel habere consuevit tempore H. Regis Avi nostri, vel quas postea perquisivit; fiat autem visus de franco plegio sic videlicit quod pax nostra teneatur,et quod theothinga teneatur integra sicut esse consuevit; et quod Vice-comes non querat occasiones et quod contentus sit de eo quod Vicecomes habere consuevit de visu suo faciendo,tempore H. Regis Avi nos

tri.

time hath been used, there shall be greater: Nor any Sheriff or his Bailiff shall keep his turn in the hundred, but twice in the year; and no where but in due place and accustomed: that is to say, once after Easter, and again after the Feast of St. Michael. And the view of Frank Pledge shall be likewise at the Feast of St. Michael, without occasion; so that every man may have his liberties, which he had, or used to have, in the time of King Henry our Grandfather, or which he hath purchased since. The view of Frank Pledge shall be so done, that our Peace may be kept; and that the Tything be wholly kept as it hath been accustomed; and that the Sheriff seek no occasions, and that he be content with so much as the Sheriff' was wont to have for his Viewmaking,in the time of King Henry our Grandfather.