World History

6.

Summons of Juries to St. Albans.

July 21, 1213. (Latin text in Stubbs, Select Charters, ninth edition, p. 271. Translation by the editor.)

On the morrow the king sent letters to all the sheriffs of the kingdom of England, commanding that they should cause to assemble at St. Albans, on August fourth, four lawful men and the reeve from the several vills of his demesne, so that through them and his other ministers he might make inquiry concerning the damages and losses of the individual bishops, and what he owed each.