[263]. Ibid. This seems to imply that all the aggressions since Henry’s reign, had not been on one side. The barons, in obtaining a promise to respect “franchises” acquired since 1189, tacitly admitted that they had been recently encroaching on royal prerogatives. By the Statute of Gloucester and the subsequent quo warranto procedure Edward I. made a partially successful effort to redress the balance.
[264]. 18 Edward I., also known as Westminster III.
[265]. 7 Edward I., also known as the Statute de religiosis.
[266]. See Pollock and Maitland, I. 314.
[267]. Minor variations are discussed under their appropriate chapters infra. A full list is given by Blackstone, Great Charter, xxxvi.
[268]. Cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. 27. “This re-issue presents the Great Charter in its final form.”
[269]. The terms of these writs are preserved in Rot. Claus., I. 377.
[270]. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. 30. The Annals of Waverley, p. 290, speak of a re-issue of the charters about this date; but this probably results from confusion with what happened a year earlier. See Stubbs, Ibid.
[271]. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. 31.
[272]. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. 32, and authorities there cited.