"The year of our Lord a thousand two hundred and fifty-three, the
third day of May, in the great Hall of the King at Westminster, _in
the presence, and by the assent, of the Lord Henry, by the Grace of
God King of England_, and the Lords Richard, Earl of Cornwall, his
brother, Roger (Bigot) Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, marshal of
England, Humphrey, Earl of Hereford, Henry, Earl of Oxford, John,
Earl of Warwick, and other estates of the Realm of England: We,
Boniface, by the mercy of God Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of
all England, F. of London, H. of Ely, S. of Worcester, E. of Lincoln,
W. of Norwich, P. of Hereford, W. of Salisbury, W. of Durham, R. of
Exeter, M. of Carlisle, W. of Bath, E. of Rochester, T. of Saint
David's, Bishops, apparelled in Pontificals, with tapers burning,
against the breakers of the Church's Liberties, and of the Liberties
or free customs of the Realm of England, and especially of those
which are contained in the Charter of the Common Liberties of the
Realm, and the Charter of the Forest, have solemnly denounced the
sentence of Excommunication in this form. By the authority of
Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and of the
glorious Mother of God, and perpetual Virgin Mary, of the blessed
Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all apostles, of the blessed Thomas,
Archbishop and Martyr, and of all martyrs, of blessed Edward of
England, and of all Confessors and virgins, and of all the saints of
heaven: We excommunicate, accurse, and from the thresholds
(liminibus) of our Holy Mother the Church, We sequester, all those
that hereafter willingly and maliciously deprive or spoil the Church
of her right: And all those that by any craft or wiliness do violate,
break, diminish, or change the Church's Liberties, or the ancient
approved customs of the Realm, and especially the Liberties and free
Customs contained in the Charters of the Common Liberties, and of the
Forest, conceded by our Lord the King, to Archbishops, Bishops, and
other Prelates of England; and likewise to the Earls, Barons,
Knights, and other Freeholders of the Realm: And all that secretly,
or openly, by deed, word, or counsel, _do make statutes, or observe
them being made_, and that bring in Customs, or keep them when they
be brought in, against the said Liberties, or any of them, the
Writers and Counsellors of said statutes, and the Executors of them,
and all those that shall presume to judge according to them. All and
every which persons before mentioned, that wittingly shall commit
anything of the premises, let them well know that they incur the
aforesaid sentence, _ipso facto_, (i.e., upon the deed being done.)
And those that ignorantly do so, and be admonished, except they
reform themselves within fifteen days after the time of the
admonition, and make full satisfaction for that they have done, at
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