Here is shown what William the king of the English, together
With his princes, has established since the Conquest of England.
1. Firstly that, above all things, he wishes one God to lie
venerated throughout his whole kingdom, one faith of Christ
always to be kept inviolate, peace and security to be observed
between the English and the Normans. 2. We decree also that
every free man shall affirm by compact and an oath that, within
and without England, he desires to be faithful to king William,
to preserve with him his lands and his honour with all fidelity,
and first to defend him against his enemies. 3. I will,
moreover, that all the men whom I have brought with me, or who
have come after me, shall be in my peace and quiet. And if one
of them shall be slain, the lord of his murderer shall seize him
within five days, if he can; but if not, he shall begin to pay
to me forty six marks of silver as long as his possessions shall
hold out. But when the possessions of the lord of that man are
at an end the whole hund