“That they would not hinder the King’s pious intention of going to the Holy Land; nor at the ſame time ſhould the church and kingdom ſuffer damage.” They therefore granted the King the tenth of all church-revenues for three years, and three marks eſcuage upon every knight’s fee for that year. And the King on his part, promiſed, that in good faith, and without any quirks and caviiling pretences, he would faithfully obſerve Magna Charta, and every article of it. Though it was no more than his father King John had ſworn to keep many years ago, and in like manner the preſent King at his coronation, and many a time after, whereby he chouſed the nation of an infinite deal of money.
Accordingly, May the third, in the great hall at Weſtminſter, in the preſence and with the conſent of the king and the whole parliament, the archbiſhop and the biſhops in their pontificals with lighted candles, paſſed the ſentence of excommunication againſt all that ſhould violate the liberties of the church, and the liberties or free cuſtoms of the realm of England; and thoſe eſpecially which are contained in the charter of common liberties of the realm of England, and of the Foreſt. And the charter of King
