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Stat. 1.
Anno vicesimo quinto Edwardi I.
A.D. 1297.

them in Judgment in all their Points, that is to wit, The Great Charter the Common Law.the great Charter as the Common Law, and the Charter of the Forest ⟨according to the Assise of the Forest⟩,[1] for the Wealth of our Realm.

  1. ↑ Add according to the Assise of the Forest.

CAP. II.
Judgments given against the said Charters shall be void.

[1]AND we will, that if any Judgement be given from henceforth contrary to the Points of the Charters aforesaid by the Justices, or by any other our Ministers that hold Plea before them against the Points of the Charters, it shall be undone, and holden for nought.

Farther confirmed by 42 Ed. 3. c. 1.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 526.

CAP. III.
The said Charters shall be read in the Cathedral Churches twice in the Year.

AND we will, that the same Charters shall be sent, under our Seal, to Cathedral Churches throughout our Realm, thereto remain, and shall be read before the People two Times by the Year.[1]

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 527.

CAP. IV.
Excommunication shall be pronounced against the Breakers of the said Charters.

[1]AND that all Archbishops and Bishops shall pronounce the Sentence of Excommunication against all those that by Word, Deed, or Council do contrary to the foresaid Charters, or that in any Point break or undo them. (2) And that the said Curses be twice a Year denounced and published by the Prelates aforesaid. (3) And if the same Prelates, ⟨Bishops⟩,[2] or any of them, be remiss in the Denunciation of the said Sentences, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for the time being shall compel and distrein them to the Execution of their Duties in Form aforesaid.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 527.
  2. ↑ Add Bishops.

CAP. V.
Aids, Tasks, and Prises granted to the King shall not be taken for a Custom.

[1]AND for so much as divers People of our Realm are in Fear, that the Aids and Talks which they have given to us beforetime towards our Wars and other Business, of their own Grant and good Will (howsoever they were made) might turn to a Bondage to them and their Heirs, because they might be at another Time found in the Rolls, and likewise for the Prises taken throughout the Realm by our Ministers ⟨in our Name⟩[2]: (2) We have granted for us and our Heirs, that we shall not draw such Aids, Tasks, nor Prises into a Custom, for any Thing that hath been done heretofore, be it by Roll or any other Precedent that may be founden.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 527.
  2. ↑ Add in our Name.

CAP. VI.
The King of his Heirs will take no Aids or Prises, but by the Consent of the Realm, and for the common Profit thereof.

[1]MOreover we have granted for us and our Heirs, as well to Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, and other Folk of holy Church, as also to Earls,

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 529.
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