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MAGNA CHARTA.
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If we have diſſeized or eſloined any Welchmen of land, franchiſes, or of other things, without lawful judgment of their peers, in England or in Wales, they ſhall, forthwith, be reſtored unto them; and if ſuits ariſe thereupon, right ſhall be done them in the Marches by the judgment of their peers; of Engliſh tenements according to the law of England, and of tenements in Wales according to the law of Wales; and tenements in the Marches according to the law of the Marches: and in like manner ſhall the Welch do to us and our ſubjects.

As for all ſuch things, whereof any Welchmen have been diſſeized or eſloined, without lawful judgment of their peers, by King Henry our father, or by King Richard our brother, which we have in our hands, or which any others have, to whom we are bound to warrant the ſame, we will have reſpite till the common term be expired of all that croſſed themſelves for the Holy Land, thoſe things excepted whereupon ſuits were commenced, or inqueſts taken by our order before we took upon us the croſs, and when we ſhall return from our pilgrimage, or if, peradventure, we forbear going, we will preſently cauſe full right to be done therein, according to the laws of Wales, and before the ſaid parties.

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