On the Expanded Rights of Freemen under our Royal Government:
16. The city of Sol Invictus shall be the seat of the new royal court. This city shall be a boroughs which shall enjoy all the ancient liberties and free customs enjoyed by the city of Sanguine, both by land and by water. We also will and grant that other cities, boroughs, towns, and ports shall enjoy all their liberties and free customs. Subjects residing in all counties, duchies and baronies, shall enjoy the rights of freemen and burgesses so long as they hold deed in title to a structure or a ship which stands within the buildable land of Hyperion.
17. In future we will allow no one to levy a monetary aid directly from his free men.
18. Any serf or vagabond of any shire may be distrained upon by the Crown and immediately exiled if such is found by the Crown to be in the interest of the realm at large. No freeman or gentleman shall be executed, or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed-nor will we go upon or send upon him, save by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
On the Administration of Law and Order:
19. The royal sheriffs, the Lord Constable, the Lord Chancellor and other bailiffs of ours shall have the power to hold the pleas of our Crown.
20. Ordinary lawsuits shall be held by mesne lords in their respective shires, according to the procedures they recognize for their magistracy. The royal sheriffs shall be on hand in all shires and provinces for those preferring to seek appeal from the king's justice. Rulings of the sheriff courts shall be binding on any subject in any shire, save those which lie outside of secular jurisdiction, as ecclesiastics. Rulings of shire magistrate courts may also be appealed to the royal sheriff courts.
21. For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood. In the same way, a merchant shall be spared his merchandise, and a serf the implements of his serfdom, if they fall upon the mercy of a royal court. None of these fines shall be imposed except by the assessment on oath of between three and six reputable men of the neighbourhood of the accused who shall be chosen by the sheriff and called as a jury of assize.
22. Magnates shall not be amerced save through their peers in the House of Lords, and only according to the measure of the offence.
23. No cleric shall be amerced by secular courts royal or noble, but only through the operation of the ecclesiastic courts, unless the ecclesiastic courts shall request it of the secular authorities.
24. No sheriff, on his own simple assertion, shall henceforth submit any one to fine or amercement without producing faithful witnesses in evidence.
25. We will not make men executors, constables, sheriffs, yeomen or other bailiffs of the royal court unless they are such as know the law of the realm, and are minded to observe it rightly.
26. To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.
On the Protection and Handling of Property:
27. If any freeman shall have disappeared for a period of two weeks, his chattels shall be distributed through the hands of his near relatives and friends, by view of the Church; saving to any one the debts which the man owed him. In lands which have no ministry of the Church, the responsibility for fair distribution shall fall to the mesne lord.
28. No yeoman, sheriff, clerk or other bailiff of ours shall take the goods or other chattels of any one except he straightway give money for them, or can be allowed a respite in that regard by the will of the seller. Nor shall any sheriff nor bailiff of ours, nor any one else, take the horses or carts of any freeman for transport, unless by the will of that freeman. Neither shall we nor our bailiffs take another's wood or resources for castles or for other private uses, unless by the will of him to whom the resource belongs.
On the Advocacy of the Free Trade:
29. All merchants who register with the chancery may safely and securely go out of Hyperion, and come into Hyperion, and delay and pass through Hyperion, as well by land as by water, for the purpose of buying and selling, subject to the ancient and right customs-save in time of war, and if they are of the land at war against us. And if such be found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be held, without harm to their bodies and goods, until it shall be known to us or our royal court how the merchants of our land are to be treated who shall, at that time, be found in the land at war against us. And if ours shall be safe there, the others shall be safe in our land.
30. Henceforth any person giving fealty to us as a royal subject, may go out of our realm and return to it, safely and securely, by land and by water, except perhaps for a brief period in time of war, for the common good of the realm. But exiles and outlaws are excepted according to the law of the realm; also people of a land at war against us, and the merchants, with regard to whom shall be done as we have said.
On Policies of War and Force:
31. Concerning forests and warrens, and concerning foresters, rangers, and the Royal Warden, we shall maintain a royal patrol in each county, which in its duties seeks out raiders, brigands, outlaws, foreign soldiery, poachers, and thieves and shall eradicate them entirely.
32. Straightaway after disassociating from Mercia we shall remove from the new realm all foreign soldiers, crossbowmen, servants, and hirelings who may have come with horses and arms to the harm of the realm, and we shall not allow them entry into Hyperion without permission, even for the sake of passage, and all royal subjects are called to take up arms against any such incursions in the future.
33. When the Church shall call a crusade, or when a military levy shall be called all of those taking part shall enjoy a respite from fines and amercements owed, duties of offices held, and a reasonable respite from feudal military obligations. The Crown may call for an end to both levies and crusades at its pleasure.
34. No landholder of any fee may initiate wars or aggression on realms which have been recognized by the Crown or the College of Heralds, save they immediately be called to do so out of self defense. Landholders shall bear the right to police their holdings and neighboring badlands or wastelands of barbarians, hillmen, outlaws, renegades, nomads, and all such as hold neither sovereignty nor statehood in the eyes of the Crown.
Moreover all the subjects of our realm, clergy as well as laity, shall, as far as pertains to them, observe, with regard to their vassals, all which we have decreed and which shall, as far as pertains to us, be observed in our realm with regard to our own.
Wherefore we will and firmly decree that the subjects of our realm shall have and hold all the aforesaid liberties, rights and concessions, duly and in peace, freely and quietly, fully and entirely, for themselves and their heirs from us and our heirs, in all matters and in all places, forever, as has been said. Moreover it has been sworn, on our part as well as on the part of the lords, that all these above mentioned provisions shall be observed with good faith and without evil intent. The witnesses being the above mentioned and many others.
Given through our hand,
in the cave of Chaldea
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Manus Rex
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