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402 in pace usque ad clausum Paschae, et interim facias duodecim liberos et legales homines de visineto videre terram illam et nomina eorum imbreviari facias et summone illos per bonos summonitores quod tunc sint coram me vel lustitiis meis parati inde facere recognitionem (xiii. 33).

In their eighth article of 1215 the barons simply asked that the assizes should be held locally four times a year; they in no way interfered with the forms of procedure.

2. Mr. Bolland's contention that a record of the action was not preserved falls to the ground. As Maitland pointed out long ago, the plea rolls of Richard and John are full of such records:

3. 'Another objection to Mr. McKechnie's interpretation is that abbrevientur did not in 1215 carry anything of the meaning of the modern "abbreviate".' The word has this meaning in a document 'De Excubiis in Natale et Pascha et Pentecost, relating to London, and printed by Dr. Round in his Commune of London (1899, p. 255) from Add. MS. 14252, fo. 106. Dr. Round points out that this evidence belongs to the year 1213.

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has preserved in his Liber Additamentorum (MS. Cotton Nero D. i, fo. 155) a very beautiful drawing of the Apocalyptic Christ, on which is the inscription: 'Hoc opus fecit frater Willelmus de ordine minorum socius beati francisci Secundus in ordine ipso. conuersacione sanctus: nacione anglus.' The drawing has been reproduced in Collectanea Franciscana, i, of the British Society of Franciscan Studies, where the traditions