The Charter of 1216 is, therefore, notable for its omissions. The chief among these may be arranged under five groups.[240] (1) Restraints placed in 1215 on the taxing power of the Crown now disappeared. The chapters which forbade the king to increase the “farms” or fixed rents of the counties and hundreds, those which defined the king’s relations with the Jews, and those which restricted the lucrative rights derived from the rigorous enforcement of the forest laws, were discarded. An even more important omission was that of the clause which abolished the Crown’s rights to increase feudal contributions arbitrarily without consent of the Common Council. ----- Footnote 240: This classification takes no account of such alterations as seem to be merely verbal or inserted to remove ambiguities, _e.g._ upon chapters 22, 28, and 30 of the original Charter. ----- (2) One clause specially valued by the national Church was also omitted. John’s grant of liberty of election by the canons of the chapters was quietly ignored; although the vague declaration that the Church “should be free” was allowed to remain. (3) A great number of provisions of purely temporary interest naturally disappeared, among them those providing for the disbandment of mercenary troops and the dismissal from office of obnoxious individuals. Of more importance was the omission of all reference to the device adopted for enforcing the original Charter by means of the baronial committee of twenty-five Executors. (4) A number of minor omissions of a miscellaneous nature may be grouped together; for example, chapter 27, providing that the chattels of every freeman who died intestate should be divided under the supervision of the Church; chapter 41, granting freedom to leave the kingdom, and return, without the king’s consent; chapter 45, by which the Crown restricted itself in the choice of justiciars and other officers; and the latter half of chapter 47, relating to the banks of rivers and their guardians.[241] ----- Footnote 241: