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MAGNA CHARTA.
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fees, in which the lords of the fees claim a right: and when we ſhall be returned from our pilgrimage, or if we forbear going, we will immediately do full right to all that ſhall complain.

None ſhall be taken nor impriſoned upon the appeal of a woman, for the death of any than her huſband.

All the fines and all the amercements that are impoſed for our uſe, wrongfully and contrary to the law of the land, ſhall be pardoned; or elſe they ſhall be determined by the judgment of the five and twenty barons, of whom hereafter, or by the judgment of the greater number of them that ſhall be preſent, or before Stephen, archbiſhop of Canterbury, if he can be there, and thoſe that he ſhall call to him; and if he cannot be preſent, matters ſhall proceed, notwithſtanding, without him; ſo always, that if one or more of the ſaid five and twenty barons be concerned in any ſuch complaint, they ſhall not give judgment thereupon, but others choſen and ſworn ſhall be put in their room to act in their ſtead, by the reſidue of the ſaid five and twenty barons.

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