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1920 CHARTERS TO WESTERN BOROUGHS IN 1256 559 per ipsos servientes deposita, quatenus sua esse sufficienter probare pote- runt, non amittant. 6. Et etiam si dicti cives aut eorum aliqui infra terram et potestatem nostram testati decesserint vel intestati, nos vel heredes nostri bona ipsorum confiscari non faciemus quin eorum heredes integre ipsa habeant quatenus dicta catalla dictorum defunctorum fuisse constiterint, dum tamen de dictis heredibus notitia aut fides sufficienter habeatur. 7. Et quod dicti cives non convincantur per aliquos forinsecos super rectis, iniuriis, transgressionibus, criminibus, calumpniis, aut demandis eis impositis aut imponendis, set solummodo per concives suos, nisi re tangente comunitatem civitatis predictae et tunc in casu illo deducantur secundum iibertates suas approbatas et hactenus usitatas. 8. Quod possint se approbare in terra et in aqua infra Iibertates suas sine impedimento vel calumpnia nostra vel heredum aut ballivorum nostrorum, salvis purpresturis quae ad nos vel heredes nostros de iure debeant pertinere. 9. Et quod nullus vicecomes aut alius ballivus vel minister noster decetero capiat prisas aliquas infra libertatem predictae villae, preter- quam debitas et hactenus consuetas, nisi de consensu illorum quorum res illae fuerint. 10. Et quod iidem burgenses non distringantur ad emenda vina nostra nisi de eorum voluntate et assensu, ita tamen quod dum vina nostra ibidem vendantur, aliae venditiones vinorum omnium cessent in villa predicta. 11. Et quod per totam terram et potestatem nostram habeant et teneant omnes Iibertates et libras consuetudines suas approbatas et hactenus usitatas sicut eis usi sunt temporibus predecessorum nostrorum regum Angliae et nostro. Hereford received two charters, both dated on 8 August, at Worcester. Charter (i) contained clauses 1 and 3. Charter (ii) contained five clauses — nos. 4r-7 and 11. On 10 August, at Feckenham, Shrewsbury likewise received two charters in which all the clauses of the Hereford charters are repeated with the addition of three other clauses concerning local economic arrange- ments. The charters are not, however, composed in the same manner as those to Hereford. Charter (i) contains the two clauses of the first Hereford charter with the insertion of clause 2 between clauses 1 and 3, clause 1 being contracted into ' quod ipsi et eorum heredes burgenses eiusdem villae imperpetuum habeant returnum omnium brevium nostrorum villam nostram de Salop et libertatem eiusdem villae tangentium '. Then follow clauses 5, 6, 7, from the second Hereford charter ; clauses 8, 9, 10, not found in the Hereford charters, come next ; the charter concludes with the Hereford clause 11. The omitted clause 4 is the subject of the second Shrewsbury charter ; the significance of this point will be apparent later. Save for such differences as the use of cives or burgenses and eorum heredes or heredes sui, the wording is identical throughout the charters to both boroughs.