A Source Book for Mediæval History: Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle AgeThatcher, Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph)
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A Source Book for Mediæval History: Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age
Thatcher, Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph)
Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources; Middle Ages -- Sources
3. No one shall be compelled to attend any market against his will.
4. Travellers shall not be compelled to leave the old highways, unless
they desire to do so.
5. We will not exercise jurisdiction within the ban-mile of our cities.
6. Each prince shall possess and exercise in peace according to the
customs of the land the liberties, jurisdiction, and authority over
counties and hundreds which are in his own possession or are held as
fiefs from him.
7. Centgrafs shall receive their office from the prince or from the
person who holds the land as a fief.
8. The location of the hundred court shall not be changed without the
consent of the lord.
9. No nobleman shall be amenable to the hundred court.
10. The citizens who are known as _phalburgii_ [_i.e._, persons or
corporations existing outside the city, but possessing political rights
within it] shall be expelled from the cities.
11. Payments of wine, money, grain, and other rents, which free peasants
have formerly agreed to pay [to the emperor], are hereby remitted, and
shall not be collected henceforth.
12. The serfs of princes, nobles, ministerials, and churches shall not
be admitted to our cities.
13. Lands and fiefs of princes, nobles, ministerials, and churches,
which have been seized by our cities, shall be restored and shall never
again be taken.
14. The right of the princes to furnish safe-conduct within the lands
which they hold as fiefs from us shall not be infringed by us or by
anyone else.
15. Inhabitants of our cities shall not be compelled by our judges to
restore any possessions which they may have received from others before
they moved there.
16. Notorious, condemned, and proscribed persons shall not be admitted
to our cities; if they have been, they shall be driven out.
17. We will never cause any money to be coined in the land of any of the
princes which shall be injurious to his coinage.
18. The jurisdiction of our cities shall not extend beyond their
boundaries, unless we possess special jurisdiction in the region.
19. In our cities the plaintiff shall bring suit in the court of the
accused.
20. Lands or property which are held as fiefs shall not be pawned
without the consent of the lord from whom they are held.
21. No one shall be compelled to aid in the fortifying of cities unless
he is legally bound to render that service.
22. Inhabitants of our cities who hold lands outside shall pay to their
lords or advocates the regular dues and services, and they shall not be
burdened with unjust exactions.
23. If serfs, freemen subject to advocates, or vassals of any lord,
shall dwell within any of our cities, they shall not be prevented by our
officials from going to their lords.
140-142. Treaty of San Germano, 1230.
140. The Preliminary Agreement.
Huillard-Bréholles, Hist. Dipl. Fred. II, III, pp. 210 f;
Böhmer-Ficker, no. 1799; Doeberl, V, no. 16 d.
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