[1056]. Ramsay, Angevin Empire, 477, n.
[1057]. See Rot. Pat., I. 134, and New Rymer, I. 120.
[1058]. Both ladies, however, remained prisoners after Henry III.’s accession. Peter de Maulay, constable of Corfe Castle, was, in that king’s fifth year, credited with sums expended on their behalf. Rot. Claus., I. 466; see also I. 483. Both found permanent homes in England—Margaret as wife of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (mentioned in preamble of Magna Carta); Isabel as wife of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (one of the Charter’s executors). See Ramsay, Angevin Empire, 421, and authorities there cited.
[1059]. This reference to charters was probably intended to cover (a) the Treaty of Falaise, (b) the agreement of 7th August, 1209, and (c) the writ of 7th February, 1212, with the other charters to which it refers. It called itself a charter, and suggested others by the words hinc et inde.
[1060]. No. 46 of the Articles of the Barons (as qualified by the clause in the bracket) referred the question of Alexander’s “right” in reference to his father’s charters to the judgment of Langton and his nominees, for which Magna Carta substituted “judgment of his peers in our court.”
[1061]. New Rymer, I. 135.
[1062]. Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., II. 642: “Sic fugabimus rubeam vulpeculam de latibulis suis.”
CHAPTER SIXTY.
Omnes autem istas consuetudines predictas et libertates quas nos concessimus in regno nostro tenendas quantum ad nos pertinet erga nostros, omnes de regno nostro, tam clerici quam laici, observent quantum ad se pertinet erga suos.
Moreover, all the aforesaid customs and liberties, the observance of which we have granted in our kingdom as far as pertains to us towards our men, shall be observed by all of our kingdom, as well clergy as laymen, as far as pertains to them towards their men.