1207. ELECTION OF LANGTON _Roger of Wendover_ 106 1208. THE INTERDICT " 108 1214. THE BATTLE OF BOUVINES _Matthew of Westminster_ 108 1214. EVENTS LEADING TO THE MAGNA CHARTA _Roger of Wendover_ 109 KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT _Traditional Ballad of the 13th Century_ 111 1216. THE LAST DAYS OF KING JOHN _Matthew of Westminster_ 114 THE ANGEVINS AND THE CHARTER (1154-1216) PART I. STATUTES 1154-1216 CONSTITUTIONS OF CLARENDON, 1164. +Source.+--_Historical Documents of the Middle Ages._ Henderson. Bohn's Libraries. G. Bell & Sons. 1. If a controversy concerning advowson and presentation of Churches arise between laymen, or between laymen and clerks, or between clerks, it shall be treated of and terminated in the court of the lord King. 3. Clerks charged and accused of anything, being summoned by the Justice of the King, shall come into his court, about to respond there for what it seems to the King's Court that he should respond there; and in the ecclesiastical court for what it seems he should respond there; so that the Justice of the King shall send to the Court of the Holy Church to see in what manner the affair will there be carried on. And if the clerk shall be convicted, or shall confess, the Church ought not to protect him further. 4. It is not lawful for his archbishops, bishops and persons of the kingdom to go out of the kingdom without the permission of the lord King. And if it please the King and they go out, they shall give assurance that neither in going, nor in making a stay, nor in returning, will they seek the hurt or harm of King or kingdom. 6. Laymen ought not to be accused unless through reliable and legal accusers and witnesses in the presence of the bishop, in such wise that the archdean do not lose his right nor anything which he ought to have from it. 7. No one who holds of the King in chief, and no one of his demesne servitors, shall be excommunicated, nor shall the lands of any one of them be placed under an interdict, unless first the lord King, if he be in the land, or his Justiciar, if he be without the kingdom, be asked to do justice concerning him. 9. If a quarrel arise between a clerk and a layman or between a layman and a clerk concerning any tenement which the clerk wishes to attach to the church property, but the layman to a lay fee: by the inquest of twelve lawful men, through the judgement of the Chief Justice of the King, it shall be determined in the presence of the Justice himself, whether the tenement belongs to the Church property or to the lay fee.