[184] “6. Moreover we have granted for us and our heirs as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth we shall take of our realm such manner of aids, tasks, nor prises, but by the common assent of all the realm, and for the common profit thereof, saving the ancient aids and prises due and accustomed.
“And for so much as the mere part of the commonalty of the realm find themselves sore grieved with the maletolt of wools, that is to wit, a toll of forty shillings for every sack of wool, and have made petition to us to release the same; we at their requests have clearly released it, and have granted that we will not take such thing nor any other without their common assent and good will; saving to us and our heirs the custom of wools, skins, and leather, granted before by the commonalty aforesaid. In witness of which things we have caused these our letters to be made patents.” Adams and Stephens, _Sel. Doc._ 87; Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 495 (French text), and 496 (translation).
[186] The statute is in Adams and Stephens, _Sel. Doc._ 88, translated. The Latin text is in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 497, 498.
[187] In this connection see McKechnie, _Magna Carta_, 281; 2 Stubbs, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 148-150, and _Sel. Chart._ 497; Medley, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 507, 508.
[188] _Patent Rolls_, 24th Oct., 1301, in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 446.
[189] See 2 Stubbs, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 156-158, citing 1 _Parliamentary Writs_, 104.
[191] 1 _Parl. Writs_, 134-135, in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 500-501.
[192] Carta Mercatoria, in Hall, 1 _History of the Customs_, Appendix, 202-208; 1 ibid. 69-70.
[193] 2 Walt. de Hemingb. 233; _Patent Rolls_, a. 1304, 6th Feb., in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 447.
[195] The only other instance of taxation to be noted was the aid granted in 1306 by knights and barons (a thirtieth), and by citizens and burgesses (a twentieth), on the occasion of knighting the king’s son. 1 Rymer, _Foedera_, part 4, 48.
[196] 1 Rymer, _Foedera_, part 4, 112. Also, Stubbs, 2 _Const. Hist. Eng._ 331.
[197] A Parliament of the three Estates at Northampton, 13th Oct., 1307, granted him an aid on the event of his marriage and coronation, and for the burial of Edward I. The clergy granted a fifteenth, the towns a fifteenth, and the barons and knights a twentieth of movables. 1 _Rot. Parl._ 442.