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Rh franchiſes, or of any right, we will, forthwith, reſtore the ſame; and if any difference a riſe upon it, it ſhall be determined by the judgment of the five and twenty barons, of whom mention is made hereafter in the ſecurity for the peace.

to all things whereof any have been diſſeized, or eſloined without lawful judgment of their peers, by King our father, or by King  our brother, which we have in our hands; or which any other has to whom we are bound to warrant the ſame, we will have reſpite to the common term of them that are croſſed for the holy land, except ſuch things for which ſuits are commenced, or inqueſt taken by our order before we took upon us the croſs. And if we return from the pilgrimage, or perhaps forbear going, we will do full right therein. The ſame reſpite we will have, and the ſame right we will do in manner aforeſaid, as to the diſafforeſting of foreſts; or letting them remain foreſts, which the Kings, our father, or  our brother have afforeſted; and, as to the cuſtodies of lands which are of the fee of other perſons, which we have held till now by reaſon of other men’s fees, who held of us by knight-ſervice; and of abbies that are founded in other men’s fees,