Do you, Reginald Front de-Boeuf, and your allies and accomplices whomsoever, to wit, that whereas you have, without cause given or feud declared, wrongfully and by mastery seized upon the person of our lord and master the said Cedric; also upon the person of a noble and freeborn damsel, the Lady Rowena of Hargottstandstede; also upon the person of a noble and freeborn man, Athelstane of Coningsburgh; also upon the persons of certain freeborn men, their 'cnichts'; also upon certain serfs, their born bondsmen; also upon a certain Jew, named Isaac of York, together with his daughter, a Jewess, and certain horses and mules: Which noble persons, with their 'cnichts' and slaves, and also with the horses and mules, Jew and Jewess beforesaid, were all in peace with his majesty, and travelling as liege subjects upon the king's highway; therefore we require and demand that the said noble persons, namely, Cedric of Rotherwood, Rowena of Hargottstandstede, Athelstane of Coningsburgh, with their servants, 'cnichts', and followers, also the horses and mules, Jew and Jewess aforesaid, together with all goods and chattels to them pertaining, be, within an hour after the delivery hereof, delivered to us, or to those whom we shall appoint to receive the same, and that untouched and unharmed in body and goods.
Ennélfogva kérjük és követeljük, hogy az említett nemes személyeket, név szerint rotherwoodi Cedricet, hargottstadstede-i Rowenát és coningsburghi Athelstane-t, cnichtjeikkel, szolgáikkal és minden néven nevezendő kísérőikkel, lovaikkal és öszvéreikkel egyetemben, valamint az említett zsidót leányával és minden javaival, holmijával, ingóságaival együtt, jelen levelünk vétele után egy órán belül bocsássátok szabadon, és adjátok át nekünk vagy azoknak, akiket értük küldünk, személyükben és javaikban épen és sértetlenül.