[16]. The charter recording this act may be read in New Rymer, I. 115. It was sealed not in perishable wax, but in solid gold.
[17]. John Lackland, 195.
[18]. See W. Coventry, II. 217, dicentes se propter terras quas in Anglia tenent non debere regem extra regnum sequi nec ipsum euntem scutagio juvare. The legality of this contention is discussed infra, pp. [83-6].
[19]. See Miss Norgate, John Lackland, p. 221.
[20]. R. Wendover, III. 293.
[21]. R. Wendover, III. 298.
[22]. Is it not possible that the so-called “unknown charter of Liberties” (see infra under [Part V.] and [Appendix]) was the very schedule mentioned by Wendover? It was drawn up in the form of a charter, so as to be ready for the immediate imprint of the seal they demanded.
[23]. R. Wendover, III. 298.
[24]. Blackstone, Great Charter, p. xiii., citing the Annals of Dunstable (p. 43), says they were absolved at Wallingford by a Canon of Durham.
[25]. The Charter appears Rot. Chart., p. 207. Cf. under chapter [13] infra, where the rights of the Londoners are discussed.