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ROGER OF WENDOVER Flowers of history. The history of England from the descent of the saxons to A.D. 1235. vol.2
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ROGER OF WEXDOVER. ΓΛ.Ι). IQIÔ.
any otlier person. And all the bad disposition, indignation, and rancour which has arisen between us and our subjects, clergy as well laity, from the commencement of our disagreement, we entirely dismiss and pardon in respect of all. And the better to harass us, the four castellans of Northampton, Kenilworth, Nottingham, and Scarborough, shall swear to the twenty-live barons that they will do with the said castles whatever they or the majority of them may enjoin and collimami them to do; and there shall always be appointed to those castles, castellans who are faithful and will not break their oath. And we will send away from our kingdom all foreigners, all the relatives of Gerard d'Athie, namely, Engclard, Andrew, Peter, and Guy de Chaneeles, Guy de Ciguigny, the wife of the aforesaid Gerard with all their children, Geoffrey de Martcnn and his brothers, Philip Mark and his brothers, and G. his nephew, Fulco, anil all the Flemings and robbers who do injury in our
kingdom. Moreover all offences which have been committed on account of'this disagreement from the last Faster, which was in the sixteenth year of our reign, till this renewal of peace, are by us freely forgiven to all, clergy and laity, and as far as concerns us are fully pardoned. And moreover we have caused testimonials and letters patent to be granted them from our lords. Stephen archbishop of Canterbury, Henry bishop of Durham, and Pandulph subdeacon and familiar of our lord the pope, and also from the aforesaid bishops, as η security for this and for the aforesaid grants. Wherefore we will and strictly order, that the English church be free, and that all subjects of our kingdom shall have and bold all the aforesaid liberties, laws, and customs, well and peaceably, freely and quietly, fully and entirely, to themselves and their heirs from us and our heirs, in all matters and places for ever, as aforesaid. An oath also has been made in presence of the above-named witnesses, as well on behalf of us as of the. barons, that we will observe all the aforesaid article.-! in good faith, and without fraudulent reservation, (liven under our hand in the, field called liunnymode, between Staines and Windsor, on the fifteenth day of June, in the seventeenth year of our reign.*
* M. Paris here inserts :—" In the same year ton, John, ia order tha
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