A translation [by J.E.T. Rogers] of such documents as are untranslated in dr. Stubbs' Select charters ... to the conclusion of Edward the first's reign

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William Stubbs (bp. of Oxford)
1882
 

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Página 196 - Witness the above named and many others. Given by our hand in the meadow which is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June, in the seventeenth year of our reign.
Página 223 - John, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy, and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou...
Página 192 - ... secure in going out from England and coming into England and in remaining and going through England, as well by land as by water, for buying and selling, free from all evil tolls, by the ancient and rightful customs, except in time of war, and if they are of a land at war with us; and if such are found in our land at the beginning of war, they shall be attached without injury to their bodies or goods, until it shall be known from us or from our principal justiciar in what way the merchants of...
Página 189 - And if any one shall die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and shall pay nothing of that debt; and if children of the deceased shall remain who are under age, necessaries shall be provided for them, according to the tenement which belonged to the deceased...
Página 189 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs...
Página 294 - Realm, by advice of our venerable Fathers, STEPHEN, Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the Holy Roman Church...
Página 192 - It is allowed henceforth to any one to go out from our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely, by land and by water, saving their fidelity to us, except in time of war for some short time, for the common good of the kingdom; excepting persons imprisoned and outlawed according to the law of the realm, and people of a land at war with us, and merchants, of whom it shall be done as is before said.
Página 192 - If any man hold of any escheat, as of the honour of Wallingford, Nottingham, Boulogne, Lancaster, or of other...
Página 196 - And we will obtain nothing from any one, either by ourselves or by another by which any of these concessions and liberties shall be revoked or diminished ; and if any such thing shall have been obtained, let it be invalid and void, and we will never use it by ourselves or by another.
Página 190 - And none of the aforesaid fines shall be imposed save upon oath of upright men from the neighbourhood. 21. Earls and barons shall not be amerced save through their peers, and only according to the measure of the offence. 22. No clerk shall be amerced for his lay tenement except according to the manner of the other persons aforesaid ; and not according to the amount of his ecclesiastical benefice.

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