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The Barons of Faversham are granted certain immunities from the payment of tolls and customs and from the jurisdiction of the courts of the shire and hundred, which they and their combarons of the Cinque Ports had enjoyed since the time of King Edward the Confessor. They are to resort only to their accustomed court at Shepway.
Henry, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou, to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justices, sheriffs, provosts, ministers, and to all bailiffs and his faithful subjects of all England and Normandy, greeting. Know ye that we have granted and by this our charter confirmed to our barons of Faversham immunity from toll and all custom on sale and purchase throughout all England and Normandy in whosoever land they shall come with soc and sac, toll and theam and infangthef, werefry and wytefry, lestagefri and locoffri, and immunity from shire and hundred, den and strand at Yarmouth, as they and their predecessors and their combarons of the Cinque Ports had best and most fully and most honourably enjoyed them in the time of King Edward and the other predecessors of the kings of England. They are to plead nowhere except where they have been accustomed to, that is at Shepway. And concerning this nobody shall unjustly disturb them or their merchandise upon pain of forfeiting ten pounds. These being witnesses: John Maunsell, provost of Beverley; Master William of Kilkenny, Archdeacon of Coventry; Ralph the son of Nicholas; Bertram of Crioill; John de Lessinton; Robert Walerand; Elya de Rabayn; Robert le Norreys; Nicholas de St. Maur; Anketin Malor; Roger de Lokinton, and others. Given by our hand at Westminster on the fourth day of June in the thirty-sixth year of our reign.
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