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MAGNA CHARTA.
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our enemies’ country; and if our’s be ſafe there, they ſhall be ſafe in our land.

It ſhall be lawful for all men in time to come, to go out of our kingdom, and to return ſafely and ſecurely by land and by water, ſaving their faith due to us, except it be in time of war for ſome ſhort time for the profit of the realm. But out of this article are excepted perſons in priſon, perſons out-lawed, according to the law of the land and perſons of the country with whom we are at war. Concerning merchants what is above-ſaid ſhall hold as to them.

If any hold of any eſcheat, as of the honour of Wallingford, Nottingham, Boloin, Lancaſter, or of other eſcheats which are in our hand, and are baronies, and die, his heirs ſhall owe to us no other relief, nor do us any other ſervice, than was due to the baron of ſuch barony when it was in his hand; and we will hold the ſame in like manner as the baron held it.

Men that dwell out of the foreſt, ſhall not appear before our juſtices of the foreſt by com-

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