[1] There was brought foorth and also read an ancient charter made sometime by Henrie the first (whichThe charter of K. Henrie the first. charter Stephan the archbishop of Canturburie had deliuered vnto them before in the citie of London) conte [...]ning the grant of certeine liberties according to the lawes of king Edward the confessor,A firebrand of dissention. profita|ble to the church and barons of the realme, which they purposed to haue vniuersallie executed ouer all the land. And therfore being thus assembled in the quéere [page 184] of the church of S. Edmund, they receiued a solemne oth vpon the altar there, that if the king would not grant to the same liberties, with others which be of his owne accord had promised to confirme to them, they would from thencefoorth make warre vpon him, till they had obteined their purpose, and inforced him to grant, not onelie to all these their petitions, but also yéeld to the confirmation of them vnder his scale, for [...]uer to remaine most stedfast and inuio|lable.