Dr. Stubbs propounds the theory that this re-issue of 1216 represents a compromise whereby the central government, in return for increased taxing powers, allowed to the feudal magnates increased rights of jurisdiction. He gives, however, no reasons for this belief, either in _Select Charters_, p. 339, or in his _Constitutional History_, II. 27. It is abundantly clear that the Crown reserved a free hand for itself in taxation, but there seems no evidence to support the other part of the theory, namely, that feudal justice gained new ground against royal justice in 1216 which had not been already gained in 1215. ----- A practical difficulty confronted the advisers of the young King as to the execution of the Charter. No instance of a Regency had occurred since seals came into general use; and, therefore, neither law nor custom afforded precedents for the execution of documents during a king’s minority. The seal of a king, like that of any ordinary magnate, was personal to him, and not available for his heir. The custom indeed was to destroy the matrix when a death occurred, and thus to prevent its being put to improper uses. John’s great seal could no longer be used,[244] and the advisers of Henry III. shrank from the responsibility of making a new one for the infant monarch. Yet no charter would be binding unless executed with all the recognized formalities. In these circumstances it was resolved to authenticate the new Charter by impressing on it the seals of the papal legate and of the Regent. Henry was made to explain that, in the absence of a seal of his own, the Charter had been sealed with the seals of Cardinal Gualo and of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, “_rectoris nostri et regni nostri_.” ----- Footnote 244: It is unnecessary to invent any special catastrophe to account for the disappearance of John’s seal. Blackstone (_Great Charter_, xxix.) says, "King John’s great seal having been lost in passing the washes of Lincolnshire." -----