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The Commander held a large meeting, with all his knights, and squires, and the auditor... and in very deep consultation with his council, about this land; how it was occupied, and by what sort of men. Then sent he his men over all Britannia into each shire; commissioning them to find out “What land each man had, and what stock upon the land; or, what dues ought to be paid by the year from the shire.” Also he commissioned them to record in writing… 'What, or how much, each man had, who was an occupier of land in Britannia, either in land or in stock, and how much it were worth.' So very narrowly, indeed, did he commission them to trace it out, that there was not one single hide, nor a yard of land, nay, moreover, not even an ox, nor a cow, nor a swine was there left, that was not set down in his writ. And all the recorded particulars were afterwards brought to him.
 

PROCLAMATION of LAW

I, Arthur, Commander of the Briton, to his knights, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, abbots, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, Greetings. 

KNOW THAT BEFORE THE PEOPLES OF BRITANNIA: 

FIRST, THAT I HAVE GRANTED TO ALL PEOPLE OF BRITANNIA, and by this present charter have confirmed for us and our heirs in perpetuity, all religions and paganisms shall be free. That we wish this so to be observed, appears from the fact that of our own free will, and are granted and confirmed by this charter the freedom to worship as we please - a right reckoned to be of the greatest necessity of many and importance to it - this freedom Britons shall observe, and desire to be observed in good faith by our heirs in perpetuity. 

SECOND, THAT I DECREE ALL PEOPLE OF BRITANNIA, shall affirm by oath and compact that he will be loyal to Britannia, and her government, both within and without all of Britannia, that he will preserve with him his lands and honor with all fidelity and defend him against his enemies.


TO ALL FREE PEOPLE OF BRITANNIA, we have also granted, for us and our heirs forever, all the liberties written out below, to have and to keep for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs: 

1. The Territories of Britannia, are hereby declared places of free people, taking hold of their own sovereign futures. 

2. All citizens must uphold the laws of the realm. One is not free of these laws due to sex, social, or religious class. All grievances and judgment on lesser crimes shall be in accordance with the Law of the Land.

3. The Knights of the Round Table and the appointed Sheriff, and those in their service have the right to make arrests, with the authority vested in them by the Commander, of all persons, no matter of station or religious affiliations. They shall present the Commander’s warrant when entering personal dwellings and places of worship, and be diligent in observing caution and discretion in matters that call upon matters that require a higher level of discerning to dispense justice. 

4. All people have the right to petition their Lords on local lands for a say in grievances and expect an appropriate resolution to be the outcome. 

5. Landowners may oversee judgment on petty crimes, with all decisions on any matter presented to the Commander to be recorded in the annuals of legal matters at Camelot.

6. The Law of the Land shall be divided in two: High Justice and Low Justice

a.) High Justice: 
Murder, rape, treason, crimes against crown officials or other nobility, Brigandage, similar crimes that occur a multiplicity of times, abductions, ransoms, affairs concerning children, or abuses of station, privilege, or grievous abuses of one person to another, or the abuse of animals such as those for livelihood shall be seen as High Justice and are at the dispensing of the Commander to oversee or be overseen by elected persons deemed worthy to judge such at Camelot. 
 

(1.) Due Process:
All people suspected of High Justice crimes have the right to a hearing before the Commander with witnesses and a small assembly of peers to determine guilt or innocence in due process. When a person is accused of something, both accused and accuser must be present at a hearing or trial on the matter. Also, if both parties don't show up for a hearing, the appointed judge is free to rule in favor of the party that did show up. It also says that if a person fails to show up as a trial witness, then that person will never again be allowed to be a witness. Most importantly, it says that a person shown to have lied in court will be put to death.

(2.) Punishment:
High Justice crimes are punishable by prolonged sentences of imprisonment and in some instance by death. Only the Commander may sentence anyone to death.

b.) Low Justice: 
Petty theft, assault, slander, gossip, issues of morality where a party brings complaints of adultery to be heard and fined is such is the noble's way, minor business infractions between merchants, vassalship, All of these things shall be considered "Affairs of the Manor.".
 

(1.) Affairs of the Manor: 
Knights, Earls, and other noble landowners may redress grievances on their lands with institution of fines, resolving thefts, solving disputes among common persons such as assaults, slander, gossip, and issues of local morality that tadamount to low justice living on their land with clear, sound judgment as befits them when representing the law.

(2.) One may take an "Affair of the Manor" judgment to the Commander’s Court for appeal, but be advised the ruling landowner's judgment will not be overturned without proper reason or evidence.

7. Citizens of all classes are entitled to religious freedom to practice faith as they see fit, to celebrate ritual and observe rites of that faith. All practices are allowed religious toleration, so long as the practice does not defy established laws or cause great harm/loss of life.

8. Every freeman, therefore, who holds land can give a certain part in marriage with his daughter or any other woman whether he has an heir or not, and whether the heir is willing or not, and even against the opposition and claim of such an heir. Every man, moreover, can give a certain part of his free tenement to whomsoever he will as a reward to his service, or in charity to a religious place, in such wise that if seisin (the possession of such an estate in land as was anciently thought worthy to be held by a free man) has followed upon the gift it shall remain perpetually to the donee and his heirs if it were granted by hereditary right. But if seisin did not follow upon the gift it cannot be maintained after the donor's death against the will of the heir, for it is to be construed rather than a true promise of a gift. It is moreover generally lawful for a man to give during his lifetime a reasonable part of his land to whomsoever he will according to his fancy, but this does not apply to deathbed gifts, for the donor might then, (if such gifts were allowed) make an improvident distribution of his patrimony as a result of a sudden passion or failing reason, as frequently happens. However, a gift made to anyone in a last will can be sustained if it was made with the consent of the heir and confirmed by him." 

9. It is illegal to overide a horse, force a weakened ox to do excessive work, or threaten an animal with angry vehemence which breaks bones. 

10. The wife who minds the sheep shall be paid two lambs a year.

11. A Commander exercises not falsehood nor force nor oppressive might. He is righteous towards all his people, both weak and strong.

12. If a freeman breaks another freeman's leg, he must pay a fine and supply a horse for the victim to ride on. 

13. Every third year, roads must be cleared of brambles, brush, weeds, and water to make ready for the great assembly, feast, or fair. 

14. The creditor who holds your brooch, necklaces and, rings as security for your pledge must return them back to you to wear at the great assembly and prevent embarrassment. 

15. The groom shall pay a bride-price, either of cattle, land, horses, gold, jewels, or silver, to the Father of the bride. Husband and wife retain individual rights to property, goods and possessions each bring to the marriage. 

16. If a pregnant woman craves a morsel of food and her husband withholds it through stinginess, meanness or neglect he must pay a fine. 

17. If a rational adult brings a simpleton into an ale house for amusement and the simpleton injures a patron the adult who brought him must make compensation. 

18. The blacksmith must rouse all sleeping customers before he puts the iron in the fire to guard against injury from sparks. Those who fall asleep again will receive no compensation. 

19. The mill-owner is exempt from liability for injury to a person caught between the millstones. 

20. The lender of a horse must give notice of the horse's kicking habits. 

21. Notice of the hound in heat and the mad dog must be sent to the four nearest neighborhoods. 

22. The harpist is the only musician who is of noble standing. Flute-players, trumpeters and timpanists, as well as jugglers, conjurers and equestrians who stand on the backs of horses at fairs, have no status of their own in the community, only that of the noble chieftain to whom they are attached. 

23. Obey the Seven Principles Of the Commander:

• First: Labor diligently to acquire knowledge, for it is power. 

• Second: When in authority, decide reasonably, for thine authority may cease. 

• Third: Bear with fortitude the ills of life, remembering that no mortal sorrow is perpetual. 

• Fourth: Love virtue-for it bringeth peace. 

• Fifth: Abhor vice-for it bringeth evil upon all. 

• Sixth: Obey those in authority in all just things, that virtue may be exalted. 

• Seventh: Cultivate the social virtues, so shalt thou be beloved by all men.


Institution of Manors

One of the institutions Arthur made was Manorialism. To defray the cost of building a nation, he assumed much of the
already established infrastructure, financed and built by the departing Romans. Manoralism is characterized by the vesting of
legal and economic power in a lord, supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory
contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction. These obligations can be payable in several ways, in labor, in food and board, or, on rare occasions, in coin. 

Manorialism derives from traditional inherited divisions of the countryside, reassigned as local jurisdictions known as manors; each manor being subject to a lord, usually holding his position in return for undertakings offered to a higher lord. The lord held a manor court, governed by public law and local custom. 

The word manor is to mean any home area or territory in which authority is held. Arthur authorized the acquisition of all manors and estates that the Roman nobles vacated.

The strips of individually-worked land in the open field system are immediately apparent. In this plan, the manor house is set slightly apart from the village, but equally often the village grew up around the forecourt of the manor, usually walled, while the manor lands stretched away outside. As concerns for privacy increased, manor houses are located a farther distance from the village.

Manors each consisted of up to three classes of land:

1. Demesne, the part directly controlled by the lord and used for the benefit of his household and dependents;
2. Dependent (serf or villein) holdings carrying the obligation that the peasant household supply the lord with specified labor services or a part of its output (or cash in lieu thereof), subject to the custom attached to the holding; 
3. Free peasant land, without such obligation but otherwise subject to manorial jurisdiction and custom, and owing money rent fixed at the time of the lease.

Additional sources of income for the lord include charges for use of his mill, bakery, or wine-press, or for the right to hunt or to let pigs feed in his woodland, as well as court revenues and single payments on each change of tenant. On the other side of the account, manorial administration involve significant expenses.

Dependent holdings are held nominally by arrangement of lord and tenant, but tenure became in practice almost universally hereditary, with a payment made to the lord on each succession of another member of the family. Villein land could not be abandoned, at least until demographic and economic circumstances make flight a viable proposition; nor can they be passed to a third party without the lord's permission, and the customary payment.

Though not free, villeins are by no means in the same position as slaves: they enjoy legal rights, subject to local custom, and have recourse to the law, subject to court charges which were an additional source of manorial income. Sub-letting of villein holdings are common, and labor on the demesne might be commuted into an additional money payment.