the judgement of the twenty-five barons referred to
below in the clause for securing the peace. In
cases, however, where a man was deprived or dispossessed
of something without the lawful judgement of his equals
by our father King Henry or our brother King Richard,
and it remains in our hands or is held by others under
our warranty, we shall have respite for the period
commonly allowed to Crusaders, unless a lawsuit had
been begun, or an enquiry had been made at our order,
before we took the Cross as a Crusader. On our
return from the Crusade, or if we abandon it, we will
at once render justice in full. * We shall have similar
respite in rendering justice in connexion with forests
that are to be disafforested, or to remain forests,
when these were first aforested by our father Henry
or our brother Richard; with the guardianship of lands
in another persons fee, when we have hitherto had
this by virtue of a fee held of us for knights service
by a third party; and with abbeys founded in another
persons fee, in which the lord of the fee claims to
own a right. On our return from the Crusade,
or if we abandon it, we will at once do full justice
to complaints about these matters. * No one shall
be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman
for the death of any person except her husband. *
All fines that have been given to us unjustly and against
the law of the land, and all fines that we have exacted
unjustly, shall be entirely remitted or the matter
decided by a majority judgement of the twenty-five
barons referred to below in the clause for securing
the peace together with Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury,
if he can be present, and such others as he wishes
to bring with him. If the archbishop cannot be
present, proceedings shall continue without him, provided
that if any of the twenty-five barons has been involved
in a similar suit himself, his judgement shall be
set aside, and someone else chosen and sworn in his
place, as a substitute for the single occasion, by
the rest of the twenty-five. * If we have deprived
or dispossessed any Welshmen of lands, liberties,
or anything else in England or in Wales, without the
lawful judgement of their equals, these are at once
to be returned to them. A dispute on this point
shall be determined in the Marches by the judgement
of equals. English law shall apply to holdings
of land in England, Welsh law to those in Wales, and
the law of the Marches to those in the Marches.
The Welsh shall treat us and ours in the same way.
* In cases where a Welshman was deprived or dispossessed
of anything, without the lawful judgement of his equals,
by our father King Henry or our brother King Richard,
and it remains in our hands or is held by others under
our warranty, we shall have respite for the period
commonly allowed to Crusaders, unless a lawsuit had
been begun, or an enquiry had been made at our order,
before we took the Cross as a Crusader. But on
our return from the Crusade, or if we abandon it,
we will at once do full justice according to the laws