KING EDWARD IV.'S CHARTER a.d. 



1462. 



appoynt among them at their pleasure, freely and without 



danger, certaine sufficient and fit persons to the number 



of twelve or under, which we wil have to be named 



Justicers, unto the which Justicers so elected by the 



saide governour and our saide subjects, as it is said, and 



to everie of them, we give and graunt especiall power 



and authoritie to sitte and assist in court, with the said 



governour or his lieutenants, for their aide and assistance, 



and to heare the griefs, complaints, and demands of our 



said subjects their suites, pleas, and the state of their 



causes and quarels whatsoever moved or to be moved 



unto the ende of their cause, and at the request of the 



saide governour, his lieutenants, or any of them, to say, 



propound, and plainely to expresse and declare their 



opinions, according to right and conscience, upon the 



causes brought before them and by the parties uttered 



and declared, and well, lawfully, and faithfully to coun- 



sell and advise the saide governour or his lieutenants, to 



order and censure, judge and determine, and ende the 



same justly and equally, according as the case shall 



permit and require. And furthermore we wil, that all 



just and reasonable statutes, lawes, ordinances, decrees, 



and constitutions made and established, or to be made 



and established, in the countreys aforesaide, by the consent 



of the said governour, and of the saie Justicers, shalbe 



corrected, amended, and made, as they shall see to bee 



expedient in this behalfe, for the better government of 



the estate of the common marchants and mariners our 



saide subjects, and shalbe held as ratified, firme, acceptable 



and approved ; and from henceforth we accept, admit, 



allow and approve them for ratified and confirmed, there 



to be firmely and inviolably observed, kept and obeyed. 



And also, of our farther favour and grace wee will and 



we grant, that by the consent of our said governour, our 



said subjects the common marchants and mariners may 



make and set downe in the said countreis, by their 



common consent, as often as they shall thinke good 



for their better government and estate, such just and 



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