e King] within the walls of the city
nor shall hospitality be forcibly exacted for anyone
belonging to my household or to any other.

5) And all the citizens of London and all their effects
[goods] shall be exempt and free, both throughout England
and in the seaports, from toll and fees for transit and
market fees and all other dues.

6) And the churches and barons and citizens shall have and
hold in peace and security their rights of jurisdiction
[in civil and criminal matters] along with all their dues,
in such a way that lessees who occupy property in
districts under private jurisdiction shall pay dues to no
one except the man to whom the jurisdiction belongs, or to
the official whom he has placed there.

7) And a citizen of London shall not be amerced [fined by
a court when the penalty for an offense is not designated
by statute] to forfeiture of a sum greater than his
wergeld, [hereby assessed as] 100 shillings, in a case
involving money.

8) And further there shall be no miskenning [false plea
causing a person to be summoned to court] in a husting
[weekly court] or in a folkmote [meeting of the
community], or in any other court within the City.

9) And the Hustings [court] shall sit once a week on
Monday.

10) And I assure to my citizens their lands and the
property mortgaged to them and the debts due to them both
within the City and without.

11) And with regard to lands about which they have pled in
suit before me, I shall maintain justice on their behalf,
according to the law of the City.

12) And if anyone has exacted toll or tax from citizens of
London, the citizens of London within the city shall [have
the right to] seize [by process of law] from the town or
village where the toll or tax was exacted a sum equivalent
to that which the citizen of London gave as toll and hence
sustained as loss.

13) And all those who owe debts to citizens shall pay them
or shall clear themselves in London from the charge of
being in debt to them.

14) But if they have refused to pay or to come to clear
themselves, then the citizens to whom they are in debt
shall [have the right to] seize [by process of law] their
goods [including those in the hands of a third party, and
bring them] into the city from the [town, village or]
county in