Charter of Liberties
Footnotes from Foundations in Liberty.
1
Donald S. Lutz, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (Carmel, IN: The Liberty Fund, Inc., 1998), xxxiii.
2
Westminster Abbey, “Henry I,” Dean and Chapter of Westminster, westminster-abbey.org.
3
National Humanities Institute, introduction to “Charter of Liberties of King Henry I,” nhinet.org.
4
The version used in this book is translated by Albert Beebe White and Wallace Notestein, eds., Source Problems in English History (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1915).
5
Ibid., “Medieval Sourcebook: Charter of Liberties of Henry I, 1100,” Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook, sourcebooks.fordham.edu.
6
Kent Archaeological Society, “Henry I Coronation Charter,” translation from Latin of Textus Roffensis , ff. 96r–97v by Dr Christopher Monk, kentarchaeology.org.uk.
7
Association of English Cathedrals, “Textus Roffensis added to UNESCO register,”15th June 2022, englishcathedrals.co.uk.
8
Sheriff
9
Manor land possessed by the lord rather than held by a tenant
10
Tax on minting coins
11
Legal claims
12
Fixed revenues remain due to the crown, and debts between Englishmen remain due to one another.