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sao_fw-la regno_fw-la praedicto_fw-la extiterunt_fw-la ità _fw-la tamen_fw-la quoddictae_fw-la gentes_fw-la &_o communitates_fw-la suae_fw-la &_o haeredes_fw-la &_o successores_fw-la svi_fw-la praedicti_fw-la benè_fw-la &_o fideliter_fw-la se_fw-la gererent_fw-la ergà _fw-la ipsum_fw-la progenitorem_fw-la nostrum_fw-la &_o haeredes_fw-la &_o successores_fw-la suos_fw-la in_o perpetuùm_fw-la prout_fw-la in_o literis_fw-la illis_fw-la plenius_fw-la continetur_fw-la nos_fw-la continuam_fw-la fidelitatem_fw-la gentis_fw-la &_o communitatis_fw-la dictae_fw-la insulae_fw-la de_fw-fr jeresey_n pleniùs_fw-la intendentes_fw-la literas_fw-la praedictas_fw-la &_o omne_fw-la &_o singula_fw-la in_o eye_n contenta_fw-la quoad_fw-la gentem_fw-la &_o communitatem_fw-la ejusdem_fw-la insulae_fw-la de_fw-fr jeresey_n acceptamus_fw-la approbamus_fw-la &_o eidem_fw-la genti_fw-la &_o communitati_fw-la haeredibus_fw-la &_o successoribus_fw-la suis_fw-la per_fw-la praesentes_fw-la ratificamus_fw-la &_o confirmamus_fw-la et_fw-la ulteriùs_fw-la nos_fw-la memoriae_fw-la reducentes_fw-la quam_fw-la validè_fw-la viriliter_fw-la &_o constant_a dictae_fw-la gens_n &_o communitas_fw-la ejusdem_fw-la insulae_fw-la de_fw-fr jeresey_n nobis_fw-la &_o progenitoribus_fw-la nostris_fw-la perstiterunt_fw-la &_o quanta_fw-la pericula_fw-la &_o perdita_n pro_fw-la salvatione_fw-la ejusdem_fw-la insulae_fw-la &_o reductione_n castri_fw-la nostri_fw-la de_fw-fr mont-orgueil_a sustinuerunt_fw-la de_fw-la vberiori_fw-la gratiâ_fw-la nostrâ_fw-la concessimus_fw-la etc._n etc._n queen_n elizabeth_n charter_n begin_v thus_o elizabeth_z dei_fw-la gratiâ_fw-la etc._n etc._n quùm_fw-la dilecti_fw-la &_o fideles_fw-la ligei_n &_o subditi_fw-la nostri_fw-la ballivus_fw-la &_o jurati_fw-la insulae_fw-la nostrae_fw-la de_fw-la jeresey_n ac_fw-la caeteri_fw-la incolae_fw-la &_o habitatores_fw-la ipsius_fw-la insulae_fw-la infrà _fw-la ducatum_fw-la nostrum_fw-la normanniae_fw-la &_o predecessores_fw-la eorum_fw-la à _fw-la tempore_fw-la cujus_fw-la contrarii_fw-la memoria_fw-la hominum_fw-la non_fw-la existit_fw-la per_fw-la speciales_fw-la chartas_n concessiones_fw-la confirmationes_fw-la &_o amplissima_fw-la diplomata_fw-la illustrium_fw-la progenitorum_fw-la ac_fw-la antecessorum_fw-la nostrorum_fw-la tà m_fw-la regum_fw-la angliae_fw-la quam_fw-la ducum_fw-la normanniae_fw-la ac_fw-la aliorum_fw-la quamplurimis_fw-la juribus_fw-la jurisdictionibus_fw-la privilegiis_fw-la immunitatibus_fw-la libertatibus_fw-la &_o franchisiis_fw-la liberè_fw-la quietè_fw-la &_o inviolabiliter_fw-la usi_fw-la freti_fw-la and_o gravisi_fw-la fuerunt_fw-la tà m_fw-la infrà _fw-la regnum_fw-la nostrum_fw-la angliae_fw-la quam_fw-la alibi_fw-la infrà _fw-la dominia_fw-la &_o loca_fw-la ditioni_fw-la nostrae_fw-la subjecta_fw-la ultrà _fw-la citráque_fw-la mare_fw-la quorum_fw-la open_a &_o beneficio_fw-la insulae_fw-la praenominatae_fw-la ac_fw-la loca_fw-la maritima_n praedicta_fw-la in_fw-la fide_fw-la obedientiâ_fw-la &_o servitio_fw-la tam_fw-la nostri_fw-la quam_fw-la corundem_fw-la progenitorum_fw-la nostrorum_fw-la constant_a fideliter_fw-la &_o inculpatè_fw-la perstiterunt_fw-la &_o perseveraverunt_fw-la liberaque_fw-la commercia_fw-la cum_fw-la mercatoribus_fw-la &_o aliis_fw-la indigenis_fw-la ac_fw-la alienigenis_fw-la tà m_fw-la pacis_fw-la quam_fw-la belli_n temporibus_fw-la habuerunt_fw-la &_o exercuerunt_fw-la etc._n etc._n quae_fw-la omne_fw-la &_o singula_fw-la cujus_fw-la &_o quanti_fw-la momentisint_fw-la &_o fuerunt_fw-la ad_fw-la tutelam_fw-la &_o conservationem_fw-la insularum_fw-la &_o locorum_fw-la maritimorum_fw-la praedictorum_fw-la in_fw-la fide_fw-la &_o obedientiâ_fw-la coronae_fw-la nostrae_fw-la angliae_fw-la nos_fw-la ut_fw-la aequum_fw-la est_fw-la perpendentes_fw-la neque_fw-la non_fw-la immemores_fw-la quam_fw-la fortiter_fw-la &_o fideliter_fw-la insularii_n praedicti_fw-la ac_fw-la caeteri_fw-la incolae_fw-la &_o habitatores_fw-la ibidem_fw-la 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