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prisoners and outlaws, according to the laws of the land, and of the
people of the nation at war against us, and Merchants who shall be
treated as it is said above.

  (43) If any hold of any escheat, as of the Honor of Wallingford,
Nottingham, Boulogne, 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 that Barony had been in the hands of the Baron; and
we will hold it in the same manner that the Baron held it.

  (44) Men who dwell without the Forest, shall not come, for the
future, before our Justiciaries of the Forest on a common summons;
unless they be parties in a plea, or sureties for some person or
persons who are attached for the Forest.

  (45) We will not make Justiciaries, Constables, Sheriffs, or
Bailiffs, excepting of such as know the laws of the land, and are well
disposed to observe them.

  (46) All Barons who have founded Abbies, which they hold by charters
from the Kings of England, or by ancient tenure, shall have the
custody of them when they become vacant, as they ought to have.

  (47) All Forests which have been made in our time, shall be
immediately disafforested; and it shall be so done with Water-banks,
which have been taken or fenced in by us during our reign.

  (48) All evil customs of Forests and Warrens, and of Foresters and
Warreners, Sheriffs and their officers, Water-banks and their keepers,
shall immediately be inquired into by twelve Knights of the same
county, upon oath, who shall be elected by good men of the same
county; and within forty days after the inquisition is made, they
shall be altogether destroyed by them never to be restored; provided
that this be notified to us before it be done, or to our Justiciary,
if we be not in England.

  (49) We will immediately restore all hostages and charters, which
have been delivered to us by the English, in security of the peace and
of their faithful service.

  (50) We will remove from their bailiwicks the relations of Gerard de
Athyes, so that, for the future they shall have no bailiwick in
England; Engelard de Cygony, Andrew, Peter, and Gyone de Chancell,
Gyone de Cygony, Geoffrey de Martin, and his brothers, Philip Mark,
and his brothers, and Geoffrey his nephew, and all their followers.

  (51) And immediately after the conclusion of the peace, we will
remove out of the kingdom all foreign knights, crossbow-men, and
stipendiary soldiers, who have come with horses and arms to the
molestation of the kingdom.

  (52) If any have been disseised or dispossessed by us, without a
legal verdict of their peers, of their lands, castles, liberties, or
rights, we will immediately restore these things to them; and if any
dispute shall arise on this head, then it shall be determined by the
verdict of the twenty-five Barons, of whom mention is made below,
for the security of the peace.- Concerning all those things of which
any one hath been disseised or dispossessed, without the legal verdict
of his peers by King Henry our father, or King Richard our brother,
which we have in our hand, or others hold with our warrants, we
shall have respite, until the common term of the Crusaders,
excepting those concerning which a plea had been moved, or an
inquisition taken, by our precept, before our taking the Cross; but as
soon as we shall return from our expedition, or if, by chance, we
should not go upon our expedition, we will immediately do complete
justice therein.

  (53) The same respite will we have, and the same justice shall be
done, concerning the disafforestation of the forests, or the forests
which remain to be disafforested, which Henry our father, or Richard
our brother, have afforested; and the same concerning the wardship
of lands which are in another's fee, but the wardship of which we have
hitherto had, occasioned by any of our fees held by Military
Service; and for Abbies founded in any other fee than our own, in
which the Lord of the fee hath claimed a right; and when we shall have
returned, or if we shall stay from our expedition, we shall
immediately do complete justice in all these pleas.

  (54) No man shall be apprehended or imprisoned on the appeal of a
woman, for the death of any other man than her husband.

  (55) All fines that have been made by us unjustly, or contrary to
the laws of the land; and all fines that have been imposed unjustly,
or contrary to the laws of the land, shall be wholly remitted, or
ordered by the verdict of the twenty-five Barons, of whom mention is
made below, for the security of the peace, or by the verdict of the
greater part of them, together with the aforesaid Stephen,
Archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and others whom he may
think fit to bring with him:  and if he cannot be present, the
business shall proceed, notwithstanding, without him; but so, that
if any one or more of the aforesaid twenty-five Barons have a
similar plea, let them be removed from that particular trial, and
others elected and sworn by the residue of the same twenty-five, be
substituted in their room, only for that trial.

  (56) If we have disseised or dispossessed any Welshmen of their
lands, or liberties, or other things, without a legal verdict of their
peers, in England or in Wales, they shall be immediately restored to
them; and if any dispute shall arise upon this head then let it be
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