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fecundum legem Marchie. Idem facient Wallenfes Regi & fuis.

Ut Rex reddat filium Lewelini & preterea omnes obfides de Wallia, & chartas que ei liberate fuerint in fecuritatem pacis.

Ut Rex faciat Regi Scotie de obfidibus reddendis & de libertatibus fuis & jure fuo fecundum formam quam fecit bar. Angl. nifi aliter effe debeat per chartas quas Rex habet per judicium archiepifcopi & aliorum quos fecum vocare voluerit.

Et omnes forefte que funt aforestate per regem tempore fuo deafforeftent, & ita fiat de ripariis que per ipfum Regem funt in defenfo.

Omnes autem iftas confuetudines & libertates quas Rex conceffit regno tenendas quantum ad fe pertinet, erga fuos omnes de regno tam clerici quam laici obfervabunt quantum ad fe pertinent erga fuos.

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law of the marches. In like manner the Welchmen shall do to the King and his fubjects.

THAT the King reftore LEWELIN's fon, and all the Welch hoftages, and the deeds that were delivered to him for the fecurity of the peace,

THAT the King do right to the King of Scotland, concerning reftoring of hoftages, and his liberties and right, according to the form of the agreement with his barons of England, unless it ought to be otherwife by virtue of fome deeds which the King has, by the judgment of the archbishop and others, whom he fhall think fit to call to him.

THAT all forefts that have been afforefted by the King in his own time, be difafforefted, and fo of banks, which by the King himself have been put in defence.

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ALL these cuftoms and liberties which the King has granted to the kingdom, to hold and keep for his own part towards his men, all clerks and laymen of the kingdom shall obferve and keep their parts towards their men.

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greffus fuerit, & delictum oftenfum fuerit IV. baronibus de predictis XXV. Baronum: illi IV. barones accedent ad dominum Regem vel ad juftitiarium fuum, fi Rex fuerit extra regnum, proponentes ei exceffum, & petent ut exceffum illum fine dilatione faciat emendari. Et li Rex vel justitiarius illud non emendaverit, fi Rex fuerit extra regnum, infra rationabile tempus determinandum in charta, predicti IV. referent caufam illam ad refiduos de illis XXV... baronibus, & illi XXV. tam communia * totiusi terre diftringent & gravabunt Regem modisomnem is aLiaw of atung tien

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THIS is the form of the fecurity for keeping peace and the liberties betwixt the King and the kingdom. The barons shall chute five and twenty barons of the realm, whom they will themfelves, upon whom it thall be incumbent, that with all their might they obferve and keep, and cause to be obferved and kept, the peace and liberties which the King has granted to them, and confirmed by his charter, to wit, That if the King, or his 66 juftices, or bailiffs, or 160 or any of his minifters, "offend any perfon contrary to any of the faid "articles, or tranfgrefs any article of this peace "and fecurity, and that fuch offence be made "known to four of the faid five and twenty "barons, those four barons fhall go to the King, "or to his jufticiary, if the King be out of the "realm, declaring to him that fuch an abuse is ❝ committed, and shall defire him to cause it "fpeedily to be redreffed. And if the King or (if he be out of the realm) his jufticiary, "do not redress it, those four barons fhall with"in a reasonable time, to be limited in the char

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ter, refer the matter to the refidue of the five #randtwenty barons. And those five and twenty, "with the commonalty of all the land, fhall dif"trefs the King all the ways they can, to wit, "by feizing his caftles, his lands and poffeffi

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nibus quibus poterint: fcilicet per captionem caftrorum, terrarum poffeffionem & aliis modis quibus poterint, donec fuerit emendatum fecundum arbitrium eorum, falva perfona domini Regis & Regine, & liberorum fuorum. Et cum fuerit emendatum, intendant domino Regi ficut prius. Et quicunque voluerit de terre, jurabit ad predicta exequenda, pariturum mandatis predictorum XXV. baronum, & gravaturum Regem, pro poffe fuo cum ipfis. Et Rex publice & libere dabit licentiam jurandi cuilibet qui jurare voluerit, & nulli unquam jurare prohibebit. Omnes autem illos de terra qui fponte fua, & per fe jurare voluerint XXV. baronibus de diftringendo & gravando Regem cum iis cunctis Rex faciet jurare eifdem de mandato fuo ficut predictum eft,

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Item fi aliquis de predictis XXV. baronum decefferit, vel a terra recefferit, vel aliquo alio modo impeditus fuerit quominus ifta predicta poffit exequi, qui refidui fue

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