KING HENRY III.'S CHARTER a.d. 



c. 1236. 



London, & de omnibus aliis consuetudinibus & demandis, [I. 131-] 

 quae pertinent ad nos in London, & per totam terram 

 nostram ; & quod libere possunt ire ad ferias, per totam 

 terram nostram & emere & vendere in villa London & 

 alibi, salva libertate Civitatis nostrae London. Quare 

 volumus & firmiter prascipimus pro nobis & haeredibus 

 nostris, quod praedicti cives de Colonia praenominatas 

 libertates & liberas consuetudines habeant per totam 

 terram nostram Angliae sicut praedictum est. His testibus, 

 venerabili patre Waltero Caerleolensi Episcopo, Willielmo 

 de Ferariis, Gilberto Basset, Waltero de Bello campo, 

 Hugone Disspenser, Waltero Marescallo, Galfrido Dis- 

 penser, Bartholom^o Pech, Bartholomaeo de Saukevill, & 

 aliis. Data per manum venerabilis patris Radulphi Cicis- 

 trensis Episcopi, Cancellarii nostri apud Davintre Octavo 

 die Novembris, Anno Regni nostri vicesimo. 



The same in English. 



A Charter graunted for the behalfe of the Mar- 

 chants of Colen in the twentieth yeere of 

 Henry the third, confirmed by King Edward 

 the first, as it is extant in the roule of Char- 

 ters, in the eighteenth yeere of King Edward 

 the first. 



THe King unto Archbishops &c. greeting. Be it 

 knowen unto you, that wee have quite claimed, and 

 for us and our heires released our welbeloved the Citizens 

 of Colen and their marchandize, from the payment of 

 those two shillings which they were wont to pay out of 

 their Gildhall at London, and from all other customes and The ancient 

 demaunds, which perteine unto us, either in London, or ^^-^^^^^^ ^f^he 

 in any other place of our Dominions : and that they may qhJ/^Ji j^ 

 safely resort unto Payers throughout our whole Kingdome, London. 

 and buy and sell in the Citie of London. Wherefore we 

 will and firmely command for us and our heires, that the 

 forenamed Marchants of Colen may enjoy the liberties 

 and free priviledges above-mentioned, throughout our 



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