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FT SHALL BE
UTTERLY VOID, AND THE LAND SHALL ACCRUE TO THE LORD OF THE FEE.
{All fines unjustly and unlawfully given to us, and all
amercements levied unjustly and against the law of the land, shall
be entirely remitted or the matter decided by judgment of the
twenty-five barons mentioned below in the clause for securing the
peace, or the majority of them, together with the aforesaid
Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, if he himself can be present,
and any others whom he may wish to bring with him for the purpose;
if he cannot be present, the business shall nevertheless proceed
without him. If any one or more of the said twenty-five barons has
an interest in a suit of this kind, he or they shall step down for
this particular judgment, and be replaced by another or others,
elected and sworn by the rest of the said barons, for this
occasion only.}
{If we have disseised or deprived the Welsh of lands, liberties,
or other things, without legal judgment of their peers, in England
or Wales, they shall immediately be restored to them, and if a
disagreement arises thereon, the question shall be determined in
the Marches by judgment of their peers according to the law of
England as to English tenements, the law of Wales as to Welsh
tenements, the law of the Marches as to tenements in the Marches.
The same shall the Welsh do to us and ours.}
{But with regard to all those things of which any Welshman was
disseised or deprived, without legal judgment of his peers, by
King Henry [II] our Father or our Brother King Richard, and which
we hold in our hands or others hold under our warranty, we shall
have respite during the term commonly allowed to the Crusaders,
except as to those matters whereon a suit had arisen or an
inquisition had been taken by our command prior to our taking the
cross. Immediately after our return from our pilgrimage, or if by
chance we do not undertake it, we will do full justice according
to the laws of the Welsh and the aforesaid regions.}
{We will immediately return the son of Llywelyn, all the Welsh
hostages, and the charters which were delivered to us as security
for the peace.}
{With regard to the return of the sisters and hostages of
Alexander, King of the Scots, and of his liberties and rights, we
will do the same as we would with regard to our other barons of
England, unless it appears by the charters which we hold of
William his father, late King of the Scots, that it ought to be
otherwise
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