File 11. - Charter granted by Edward I to the town of Rothelan,

The town shall be a free borough, and the men shall be free burgesses. The constable of the castle of Rothelan shall be mayor of the borough, and he shall be sworn first to preserve the rights of the King and then the liberties of the burgesses, granted to them by the King. The burgesses every year on the feast of St Michael shall choose two proper bailiffs from among themselves. They shall have their free prison in the borough for all offenders there, except in cases of life and limb, in which cases burgesses as well as outsiders shall be imprisoned in the castle. All lands assigned to the borough shall be diswarrened and disafforested. Jews shall not tarry in the borough. No sheriff shall intermeddle save in pleas of the crown. The burgesses shall have a merchant gild with a hanse and other customs of that gild. Bondmen dwelling in the town and holding land there, and being in the said gild for a year and a day, shall remain free men in the town. The burgesses shall have sok and sak, tol and team and infangenethef, and shall be quit throughout the realm of toll, lastage, passage, murage, pontage, stallage, leve, danegeld, gaywite, and all other exactions throughout the king's power. They and their goods shall not be arrested for debt of which they are not principal debtors or sureties unless the debtors be of their commune and that the burgesses have failed to do justice to the creditors. The burgesses shall not lose any goods for any trespass or forfeiture of their servants. The King shall not confiscate the goods of burgesses who die testate or intestate within the King's land or power. The burgesses shall not be convicted by foreigners upon any appeals, charges or demands laid upon them within the County of Flynt or between the banks of Conwey and Dee, but only by their fellows, saving matters touching the commonality of the borough which shall be treated according to the customs of Hereford. Witnesses:- The Venerable Father Robert [Burnel], bishop of Bath and Wells, chancellor, Thom[as] de Clare Richard de Burgh, earl of Ulster, Richard de Brus, Reginald de Grey, Nicholas de Segrave, Peter de Champnent, John de Mold, and others. Latin. [Parchment; partly stained by gallic acid; mounted and framed].