good faith, and without any evil intention. Witnessed by the above, and many others.-Given by our hand in the Meadow which is called Runningmead, between Windsor and Staines, this 15th day of June, in the 17th year of our reign.

Lord the King; saving that they shall clearly render all the debts and revenues within the same, to our Lord the King, until the term of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the seventeenth year of his reign.

And the Lord of Canterbury shall hold in like manner of bail from our Lord the King, the custody of the Tower of London, to the aforesaid term; saving to the City of London it's liberties and free customs, and taking his oath in the keeping of the said Tower, that our Lord the King shall in the mean while not place a guard nor other forces in the aforesaid City, nor in the Tower of London. And that also within the aforesaid term, the oaths to the twenty-five Barons, be tendered throughout all England as it is contained in the Charter granted concerning the liberties and security of the kingdom; or to the attornies of the twentyfive Barons as it is contained in the letters granted concerning the election of twelve knights for abolishing evil customs of the forests and others.— And, moreover, within the said term, all the other demands which the Earls, Barons, and other freemen do ask of our Lord the King which he himself has declared to be granted to them, or which by the twenty-five Barons, or by the greater part of them shall be judged proper to be granted, are to be given, according to the tenor of the said Charter. And if these things shall be done, or if our Lord the King on his part shall agree to do them,

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within the term limited, then the City and Tower of London shall at the same term be delivered up to our Lord the King, saving always to the aforesaid City it's liberties and free customs as it is before written.-And if these things shall not be done, and if our Lord the King shall not agree to do them within the period aforesaid, the Barons shall hold the aforesaid City and the lord Archbishop the Tower of London, until the aforesaid deeds shall be completed. And in the mean-while, all of both parts shall recover the castles, lands, and towns, which have been taken in the beginning of the war that has arisen between our Lord the King, and the Barons.