Charter 1260 – Henry III

Translation

Henry, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justices, sheriffs, provosts, ministers, and to all bailiffs and his faithful subjects, greeting.  Know ye that for the laudable service which our barons of the Cinque Ports have devotedly rendered to us in our late passage to parts of France and on our return from the same parts and in our other passages we have granted to them by the advice of the great men who are of our council, and in this our charter we confirm for us and our heirs, that they for all lands now in their possession may be quit forever of common summonses before our justices itinerant for all manner of pleas in whatsoever counties these lands may be, so that on an occasion of this sort on the summoning of summonses made in the itineraries of justices, the said Barons shall not be bound to come before the same justices itinerant unless one of them has specially impleaded another, and by another shall be impleaded. Wherefore we will and firmly ordain for us and our heirs that our aforesaid Barons of the Cinque Ports have for ever the prescribed liberty as is aforesaid. These being witnesses, Richard de Clare, Earl  of Gloucester and Hereford; Roger Bygod, Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England; Hugh le Bygod, our Justiciar of England; John Maunsell, Treasurer of York; Roger Mortimer; Philip Basset; James de Aldychley; Robert Waleraund, and others. Given by our hand at Westminster on the twentieth day of May in the forty-fourth year of our reign.

‘The Royal Charters of Faversham including the Magna Carta’ Peter Tann 2013 P89