EDWARD I.'S GREAT CHARTER ad. 



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 satisfaction, so that they shall hold themselves well con- 

 tented : and that no price or valuation shalbe set upon 

 their wares, marchandises, & goods by us or by any 

 officer of ours. 



Item, we will that all bayliffes and officers of fayres, 5. 

 cities, boroughs, and market townes shall doe speedie Where is this 

 justice from day to day without delay according to the ^'^^ ^'^^ ^^~ 

 lawe of Marchants to the aforesayd marchants when 

 they shall complaine before them, touching all and 

 singuler causes, which may be determined by the same 

 law. And if default be found in any of the bayliffes 

 or officers aforesayd, whereby the sayd marchants or any 

 of them have sustained, or do sustaine any damage 

 through delay, though the marchant recover his losses 

 against the partie principall, yet the bayliffe or other 

 officer shall be punished to us ward, according to the 

 qualitie of the default. And wee doe grant this punish- 

 ment in favour of the aforesayd marchants in regard of 

 the hastening of their justice. 



Item, that in al maner of pleas, saving in case where 6. 

 punishment of death is to be inflicted, where a marchant 

 is impleaded, or sueth another, of what condition soever 

 hee bee which is sued, whether stranger or home borne, 

 in fayres, cities, or boroughs, where sufficient numbers 

 of marchants of the foresayd countreis are, and where 

 the triall ought to bee made, let the one halfe of the 

 Jurie be of the sayd marchants, and the other halfe of 

 good and lawfull men of the place where the suite 

 shall fall out to bee : and if sufficient number of mar- 

 chants of the sayd countries cannot bee found, those 

 which shall be found fit in that place shall be put 

 upon the jurie, and the rest shall be chosen of good 

 and fit men of the places where such suit shall chance 

 to be. 



Item we will, we ordaine, and wee appoint, that in 7- 

 every market towne and fayre of our realme aforesayd 

 and elsewhere within our dominion our weight shall bee 

 set in some certaine place ; and that before the weighing 



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