Proclamation of Magna Carta, 1217

Translation

The king [sends] greeting[s] to the sheriff of Worcestershire. We order you on the day and place of your county court to cause the charters of liberties to be read. We have conceded these charters to the barons and all other men of our realm through the common council of our kingdom and our lord legate has confirmed them through his seal. And [we order] that you cause the liberties included in the charter itself to be firmly observed by all our faithful men in your bailiwicks. Because to you not yet, etc. With the count as witness at Chertsey, on the 23rd day of June in the first year of our reign.