And if any foreigner should be received within the liberty of the borough aforesaid, he should find mainpernors[155] that he would bear himself in good manner and faithfully to the aforesaid earls and their bailiffs, and would be tractable to the commonalty of the borough aforesaid. And that they, the burgesses, should be bailiffs and catch-polls[156] of that borough as often as they should be elected hereto, at the will of the aforesaid earls, their stewards and bailiffs, and by election of the commonalty of the borough aforesaid from year to year. And that the burgesses aforesaid should have common pasture for their beasts in the common pasture of the borough aforesaid, according to their burgages which they have in the same borough, as they have been accustomed hitherto. We, ratifying and approving the gifts and grants aforesaid, grant and confirm them for us and our heirs for ever. These witnesses:--Sirs Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Roger Tyrel, Gilbert of St. Ouen, Giles de Bello Campo, John de Harecourt, Robert de Burs, John Tyrel, knights, Master Richard de Clare, John de Chelmersford, clerks, and others. Given at Rothwell in the county of Northampton, 26 April, 1314, in the seventh year of the reign of King Edward, son of King Edward.[157] [Footnote 152: _temp._ William I.--Stephen. Note that the privileges here confirmed date from the first century after the Conquest.] [Footnote 153: August 1.] [Footnote 154: November 1.] [Footnote 155: _i.e._. Sureties.] [Footnote 156: Constables.] [Footnote 157: Extracted from the charter of confirmation of Edward III.] 3. CHARTER OF LIBERTIES TO THE BOROUGH OF GLOUCESTER [_Charter Roll,11 Henry III, p.1, m. 10_, No. 88], 1227.