Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George IIIReilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
{All evil customs concerning forests and warrens [livestock
grounds in forests], foresters and warreners, sheriffs and their
officers, or riverbanks and their conservators shall be
immediately investigated in each county by twelve sworn knights of
such county, who are chosen by honest men of that county, and
shall within forty days after this inquest be completely and
irrevocably abolished, provided always that the matter has first
been brought to our knowledge, or that of our justiciars, if we
are not in England.}
{We will immediately return all hostages and charters delivered to
us by Englishmen as security for the peace or for the performance
of loyal service.}
{We will entirely remove from their offices the kinsmen of Gerald
de Athyes, so that henceforth they shall hold no office in
England: Engelard de Cigogne, Peter, Guy, and Andrew de Chanceaux,
Guy de Cigogne, Geoffrey de Martigny and his brothers, Philip Mark
and his brothers, and Geoffrey his nephew, and all their
followers.}
{As soon as peace is restored, we will banish from our realm all
foreign knights, crossbowmen, sergeants, and mercenaries, who have
come with horses and arms, to the hurt of the realm.}
{If anyone has been disseised or deprived by us, without the legal
judgment of his peers, of lands, castles, liberties, or rights, we
will immediately restore the same, and if any disagreement arises
on this, the matter shall be decided by judgment of the twenty-
five barons mentioned below in the clause for securing the peace.
With regard to all those things, however, of which any man was
disseised or deprived, without the legal judgment of his peers, by
King Henry [II] our Father or our Brother King Richard, and which
remain in our hands or are held by others under our warranty, we
shall have respite during the term commonly allowed to the
Crusaders, excepting those cases in which a plea was begun or
inquest made on our order before we took the cross; when, however,
we return from our pilgrimage, or if perhaps we do not undertake
it, we will at once do full justice in these matters.}
{Likewise, we shall have the same respite in rendering justice
with respect to the disafforestation or retention of those forests
which Henry [II] our Father or Richard our Brother afforested, and
concerning custodies of lands which are of the fee of another,
which we hitherto have held by reason of the fee which some person
has held of us by knight's service, and to abbeys founded on fees
other than our own, in which the lord of that fee asserts his
right. When we return from our pilgrimage, or if we do not
undertake it, we will forthwith do full justice to the
complainants in these matters.}
[XXXIV. IN WHAT ONLY CASE A WOMAN SHALL HAVE AN APPEAL OF DEATH]
No one shall be arrested or imprisoned upon a woman's appeal for
the death of any person other than her husband [since no woman was
expected to personally engage in trial by combat].
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