Magna Carta - Confirmation of Customs and Liberties Act 1297
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1297 c. 37 |
| Year | 1297 |
(25 Edw. 1) C A P. XXXVII.
'EScuage from henceforth shall be taken like as it was wont to be in the time of King Henry our Grandfather; reserving to all Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Templers, Hospitallers, Earls, Barons, and all persons, as well Spiritual as Temporal, all their free Liberties and free Customs, which they have had in time passed. (2) And all these Customs and Liberties aforesaid, which we have granted to be holden within this our Realm, as much as appertaineth to us *and our Heirs, we shall observe ; (3) and all Men of this our Realm, as well Spiritual as Temporal (as much as in them is) shall observe the same
*For and our heirs, read with respect to ours.
✗against all persons in like wise. (4) And for this our Gift and Grant of these Liberties, and of other contained in our Charter of Liberties of our Forest, the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Knights, Freeholders, and other our Subjects, have given unto us the Fifteenth Part of all their Moveables. (5) And we have granted unto themon the other part †, that neither we, nor our Heirs, shall procure or do any thing whereby the Liberties in this Charter contained shall be infringed or broken; (6) and if any thing be procured by any person contrary to the premisses, it shall be had of no force nor effect. These being Witnesses; LordB . Archbishop of Canterbury, E. Bishop of London, J. Bishop of Bathe, P. of Winchester, H. of Lincoln, R. of Salisbury, W. of Rochester, W. of Worcester, J. of Ely, H. of Hereford, R. of Chichester. W. of Exeter , Bishops; the Abbot of St. Edmonds , the Abbot of St. Albans , the Abbot of Bello , the Abbot of St. Augustines in Canterbury , the Abbot of Evesham , the Abbot of Westminster , the Abbot of Bourgh St. Peter , the Abbot of Reding , the Abbot of Abindon , the Abbot of Malmshury , the Abbot of Winchcomb , the Abbot of Hyde , the Abbot of Certesey , the Abbot of Sherburn , the Abbot of Cerne , the Abbot of Abbotebir , the Abbot of Middleton , the Abbot of Seleby , the Abbot of Cirencester; H. de Burgh Justice, H. Earl of Chester and Lincoln, W. Earl of Salisbury, W. Earl of Warren, G. de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hereford ∥, W. de Ferrars Earl of...
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