Edward I and Magna Carta

​In March of 1300, Articuli Super Cartas or the Articles in addition to Magna Carta was confirmed by King Edward I. In this document Edward agreed to abide by a new set of reforms that had been presented to him by the rebel barons.

Two of the important clauses of the document were the first and seventeenth items.

1 - Let there be chosen in each county by the community of the county, three men of standing, to be sworn as justices, to hear and determine the complaints that shall be made of all those who contravene or offend in any of the said points of the aforesaid charters in the counties to which they are assigned.
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17 - And because many more evildoers are in the land than ever there were before, and innumerable robberies, arsons and homicides are committed, and the peace is less well kept, because the statute which the king caused to be made but lately at Winchester has not been kept, the king wills that this statute be sent again into each county and read and published four times a year, like the two great charters, and firmly kept in every point, on pain of the penalties that are therein laid down; and let the three knights be charged to keep and maintain this statute who are assigned in the counties to correct infringements of the great charters.