Introduction [1] John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of [2] In the first place have granted to God, and by this [3] If any of our earls or barons or others holding of us [4] If, however, the heir of any such be under age and a [5] The guardian of the land of such an heir who is under [6] Moreover, so long as he has the wardship of the land, [7] Heirs shall be married without disparagement, yet so [8] A widow shall have her marriage portion and [9] No widow shall be forced to marry so long as she [10] Neither we nor our bailiffs will seize for any debt [11] If anyone who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, [12] And if anyone dies indebted to the Jews, his wife [13] No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom [14] And the city of London shall have all its ancient [15] And to obtain the common counsel of the kingdom [16] We will not in future grant any one the right to take [17] No one shall be compelled to do greater service for a [18] Common pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be [19] Recognitions of novel disseisin, of mort d ancester, [20] And if the said assizes cannot all be held on the day [21] A free man shall not be amerced for a trivial offence [22] Earls and barons shall not be amerced except by their [23] No clerk shall be amerced in respect of his lay [24] No vill or individual shall be compelled to make [25] No sheriff, constable, coroners, or others of our [26] All counties, hundreds, wapentakes and trithings [27] If anyone holding a lay fief of us dies and our [28] If any free man dies without leaving a will, his [29] No constable or other bailiff of ours shall take [30] No constable shall compel any knight to give money [31] No sheriff, or bailiff of ours, or anyone else shall [32] Neither we nor our bailiffs will take, for castles or [33] We will not hold for more than a year and a day the [34] Henceforth all fish-weirs shall be cleared completely [35] The writ called Praecipe shall not in future be [36] Let there be one measure for wine throughout our [37] Nothing shall be given or taken in future for the [38] If anyone holds of us by fee-farm, socage, or by [39] No bailiff shall in future put anyone to trial upon [40] No free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or [41] To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or [42] All merchants shall be able to go out of and come [43] It shall be lawful in future for anyone, without [44] If anyone who holds of some escheat such as the [45] Men who live outside the forest need not henceforth [46] We will not make justices, constables, sheriffs or [47] All barons who have founded abbeys for which they [48] All forests that have been made forest in our time [49] All evil customs connected with forests and warrens, [50] We will immediately return all hostages and charters [51] We will remove completely from office the relations [52] As soon as peace is restored, we will remove from the [53] If anyone has been disseised of or kept out of his [54] We will have the same respite, and in the same [55] No one shall be arrested or imprisoned upon the [56] All fines made with us unjustly and against the law [57] If we have disseised or kept out Welshmen from lands [58] For all the things, however, which any Welshman was [59] We will give back at once the son of Llywelyn and all [60] We will act toward Alexander, king of the Scots, [61] All these aforesaid customs and liberties which we [62] Since, moreover, for God and the betterment of our [63] And we have fully remitted and pardoned to everyone [64] Wherefore we wish and firmly enjoin that the English
