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Rh ſecurity underwritten; to wit, That the barons ſhall chuſe five and twenty barons of the Realm, whom they liſt, who ſhall, to their utmoſt power, keep and hold, and cauſe to be kept, the peace and liberties which we have granted and confirmed by this our preſent charter, in ſomuch, that if we, or our juſtice, or our bailiff, or any of our miniſters act contrary to the ſame in any thing, againſt any perſons, or offend againſt any article of this peace and ſecurity, and ſuch our miſcarriage be ſhewn to four barons of the ſaid five and twenty, thoſe four barons ſhall come to us, or to our juſtice, if we be out of the realm, and ſhew us our miſcarriage, and require us to amend the ſame without delay; and if we do not amend it, or if we be out of the realm, our juſtice do not amend it within forty days after the ſame is ſhewn to us, or to our juſtice if we be out of the realm, then the ſaid four barons ſhall report the ſame to the reſidue of the ſaid five and twenty barons; and then thoſe five and twenty barons, with the commonaliy of England, may diſtreſs us by all the ways they can; to wit, by ſeizing on our caſtles, lands, and poſſeſſions, and by what other means they can, till it be amended, as they ſhall judge; ſaving our own person, the perſon of our Queen, and the perſons of our children: and view it is amended, they ſhall be