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Rh betwixt us and our barons, and by our having confirmed the ſame by our charter, and by our having procured it moreover to be confirmed by our lord the apoſtle the third. Which privilege we will maintain: and our will is, that the ſame be faithfully maintained by our heirs for ever.

have alſo granted to all the freemen of our kingdom, for us and for our heirs for ever, all the liberties hereafter mentioned, to have and to hold to them and their heirs of us and our heirs. If any of our earls, our barons, or others that hold of us in chief by knight-ſervice, die; and at, the time of his death his heir be of full age, and relief be due, he ſhall have his inheritance by the antient relief; to wit the heir or heirs of an earl, for an entire earldom, C. pounds; the heir or heirs of a baron, for an entire barony, C. marks; the heir or heirs of a knight, for a whole knight’s fee, C. ſhillings at moſt: and where leſs is due, leſs ſhall be paid, according to the antient cuſtoms of the ſeveral tenures.