(25) All Counties, and Hundreds, Trethings, and Wapontakes, shall be
at the ancient rent, without any increase, excepting in our
Demesne-manors.

  (26) If any one holding of us a lay-fee dies, and the Sheriff or our
Bailiff, shall shew our letters- patent of summons concerning the debt
which the defunct owed to us, it shall be lawful for the Sheriff or
our Bailiff to attach and register the chattels of the defunct found
on that lay-fee, to the amount of that debt, by the view of lawful
men, so that nothing shall be removed from thence until our debt be
paid to us; and the rest shall be left to the executors to fulfil
the will of the defunct; and if nothing be owing to us by him, all the
chattels shall fall to the defunct, saving to his wife and children
their reasonable shares.

  (27) If any free-man shall die intestate, his chattels shall be
distributed by the hands of his nearest relations and friends, by
the view of the Church, saving to every one the debts which the
defunct owed.

  (28) No Constable nor other Bailiff of ours shall take the corn or
other goods of any one, without instantly paying money for them,
unless he can obtain respite from the free will of the seller.

  (29) No Constable (Governor of a Castle) shall compel any Knight
to give 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 have carried or sent him
into the army, he shall be excused from castle-guard, according to the
time that he shall be in the army by our command.

  (30) No Sheriff nor Bailiff of ours, nor any other person shall take
the horses or carts of any free-man, for the purpose of carriage,
without the consent of the said free-man.

  (31) Neither we, nor our Bailiffs, will take another man's wood, for
our castles or other uses, unless by the consent of him to whom the
wood belongs.

  (32) 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.

  (33) All kydells (wears) for the future shall be quite removed our
of the Thames, and the Medway, and through all England, excepting upon
the sea-coast.

  (34) The writ which is called Praecipe, for the future shall not
be granted to any one of any tenement, by which a free-man may lose
his court.

  (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.

  (36) Nothing shall be given or taken for the future for the Writ
of Inquisition of life or limb; but it shall be given without
charge, and not denied.

  (37) If any hold of us by Fee-Farm or Socage, or 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 Fee-Farm
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.

  (38) No Bailiff, for the future, shall put any man to his law,
upon his own simple affirmation, without credible witnesses produced
for the purpose.

  (39) No freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed,
or outlawed, or in any way destroyed; nor will we condemn him, nor
will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgement of
his peers, or by the laws of the land.

  (40) To none will we sell, to none will we deny, to none will we
delay right or justice.

  (41) All Merchants shall have safety and security in coming into
England, and going out of England, and in staying and in travelling
through England, as well by lands as by water, to buy and sell,
without any unjust exactions, according to ancient and right
customs, excepting 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 and
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 ours be in safety there, the others shall be in
safety in our land.

  (42) It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out
of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely, by land or by
water, saving his allegiance to us, unless it be in time of war, for
some short space, for the common good of the kingdom:  excepting