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Rh bailiff for the time to come ſhall put any man to his law upon his bare word, without good witneſſes produced.

freeman ſhall be taken, nor impriſoned, nor diſſeized, nor out-lawed, nor exiled, nor deſtroyed in any manner; nor will we paſs upon him, nor condemn him, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.

will ſell none, we will deny nor delay to none right and juſtice.

merchants may, with ſafety and ſecurity, go out of England, and come into England, and ſtay, and paſs through England by land and water, to buy and fell without any evil tolls, paying the antient and rightful duties, except in time of war; and then they that are of the country with whom we are at war, and are found here at the beginning of the war, ſhall be attached, but without injury to their bodies or goods, till it be known to us or to our chief-juſtice, how our merchants are entreated which are found in our