any one, who is not of that town where his Castle is, without instantly paying money for them, unless, See he can obtain a respite from the free will of the seller; but if he be of that town wherein the Castle is, he shall give him the price within forty days. -(XXIV. 22.) No Constable shall distrain any Knight to give him money for Castle-guard, if he be willing to perform it in his own person, or by another able man, if he cannot perform it himself, for a reasonable cause: and if we do lead or send him into the army, he shall be excused from Castleguard, according to the time that he shall be with us in the army, on account of the fee for which he hath done service in the host.-(XXV. 23.) No Sheriff nor Bailiff of our's, nor of any other person, shall take the horses or carts of any, for the purpose of carriage, without paying according to the rate anciently appointed; that is to say, for a cart with two horses, ten-pence by the day, and for a cart with three horses, fourteen-pence by the day. -(XXVI.) No demesne cart of any ecclesiastical person, or knight, or any lord, shall be taken by the aforesaid bailiffs.-(XXVII. 24.) Neither we, nor our Bailiffs, nor those of another, shall take another man's wood, for our castles or for other uses, unless by the consent of him to whom the wood belongs.-(XXVIII. 25.) We will not retain the lands of those who have been convicted of felony, excepting for one year and one day, and then they shall be given up to the lord of the fee.-(XXIX. 26.) All Kydells (wears) for the future, shall be

quite removed out of the Thames and the Medway, and through all England, excepting upon the sea coast.-(XXX. 27.) The Writ which is called Præcipe, for the future shall not be granted to any one of any tenement, by which a Free-man loses his court.-(XXXI. 35.) There shall be one Measure of Wine throughout all our kingdom, and one Measure of Ale, and one Measure of Corn, namely the Quarter of London; and one breadth of Dyed Cloth, and of Russets, and of Halberjects, namely, Two Ells within the lists. Also it shall be the same with Weights as with Measures.-(XXXII. 29.) Nothing shall for the future be given or taken for a Writ of Inquisition, nor taken of him that prayeth Inquisition of life or limb; but it shall be given without charge, and not denied.(XXXIII. 30.) If any hold of us by Fee-Farm, or Socage, or by Burgage, and hold land of another by Military Service, we will not have the custody of the heir, nor of his lands, which are of the fee of another, on account of that Fee-Farm, or Socage, or Burgage; nor will we have the custody of the Fee-Farm, Socage, or Burgage, unless the FeeFarm owe Military Service. We will not have the custody of the heir, nor of the lands of any one, which he holds of another by Military Service, on account of any Petty-Sergeantry which he holds of us by the service of giving us daggers, or arrows, or the like.-(XXXIV. 31.) No Bailiff, for the future, shall put any man to his open law, nor to an outh, upon his own simple affirmation, without

faithful witnesses produced for that purpose.(XXXV. 32.) No Free-man shall be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed, of his free tenement, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land.-(XXXVI. 33.) To none will we sell, to none will we deny, to none will we delay right or justice.-(XXXVII. 34.) All Merchants, unless they have before been publicly prohibited, shall have safety and security in going out of England, and in coming into England, and in staying and in travelling through England, as well by land as by water, to buy and sell, without any unjust exactions, according to ancient and right customs, excepting in the time of war, and if they be of a country at war against us: and if such are found in our land at the beginning of a war, they shall be apprehended, without injury of their bodies or goods, until it be known to us, or to our Chief Justiciary, how the Merchants of our country are treated who are found in the country at war against us: and if our's be in safety there, the others shall be in safety in our land.--(XXXVIII. 35.) If any hold of any escheat, as of the Honour of Wallingford, Boulogne, Nottingham, Lancaster, or of other escheats which are in our hand, and are Baronies, and shall die, his heir shall not give any other relief, nor do any other service to us, than he should have done to the Baron, if those lands had been in the hands of the

Baron; and we will hold it in the same manner that the Baron held it. Neither will we have, by occasion of any Barony or Escheat, any Escheat, or the custody of any of our men, unless he who held the Barony or Escheat, held otherwise of us in chief.-(XXXIX.) No Free-man shall from henceforth, give or sell any more of his land, but so that of the residue of his lands, the lord of the fee may have the service due to him which belongeth to the fee.-(XL. 37.) All Patrons of Abbies, which are held by charters of Advowson from the Kings of England, or by ancient tenure or possession of the same, shall have the custody of them when they become vacant, as they ought to have, and such as it hath been declared above.-(XLI. 39.) No man shall be apprehended or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman, for the death of any other man than her husband.-(XLII.) No County Court, shall, from henceforth be holden, but from month to month; and where a greater term hath been used, it shall be greater. Neither shall any Sheriff or his Bailiff, keep his turn in the hundred but twice in the year; and no where but in due and accustomed place; that is to say, once after Easter, and again after the Feast of Saint Michael. And the view of Frank-pledge shall be likewise at Saint Michael's term, without occasion; so that every man may have his liberties, which he had and was accustomed to have, in the time of King Henry our grandfather, or which he hath since procured him. Also the view of Frank-pledge shall be so done,

that our peace may be kept, and that the tything may 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 view-making, in the time of King Henry our grandfather.-(XLIII.) It shall not, from henceforth, be lawful for any to give his lands to any Religious House, and to take the same land again to hold of the same house; nor shall it be lawful to any House of Religion to take the lands of any, and to lease the same to him from whom they were received. Therefore, if any from henceforth do give his land to any Religious House, and thereupon be convict, his gift shall be utterly void, and the land shall accrue to the Lord of the fee.(XLIV.) Scutage from henceforth shall be taken as it was accustomed to be taken in the time of King Henry our grandfather.-(XLV. 41.) Also all those customs and liberties aforesaid, which we have granted to be held in our kingdom, for so much of it as belongs to us, all our subjects, as well clergy as laity, shall observe towards their tenants as far as it concerns them.-(XLVI.) Saving to the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Templars, Hospitallers, Earls, Barons, and all others, as well ecclesiastical as secular persons, the liberties and free customs which they have formerly had. -(XLVII.) We also ordain by the common Council of our whole kingdom, that all the adulterine castles, namely those, which from the be