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make as many liegemen as they can and are able, and well may he or she release these liegemen of the service that they owe, and it should never ever be revoked,
because it is right that he can and should prosper from what is his. But if the king or the queen would like to give any gift or land to any of his or her barons or of his landholders, the argument requires that he cannot do it by right, if the one who is the lord of this landholding is not permitted by his desire, until the same one is done by recognition of this permission, with a charter sealed with his own seal of lead or wax if he has not other, the gift that the king made on his fief or on his landholding, And if it is not sealed with his own seal, as it is said above, reason and right commands that this gift is not valid by law, nor is the lord bound to the place, nor his heirs, however much it might please them, because this is an affair without argument and without the proper establishment of the assise.

Chapter 4

Here you will hear about when the kingdoms shift/change

If it so happens that the king should die and so the queen remains, is survived by the queen through her the kingdom moves and it so happens that the woman takes another husband, a certain man of high standing, just as is appropriate, by the council of her liegemen, it should be well known that reason requires and demands in such a way so that no gift that this king might give should be held after his death if the queen his wife does not approve by guarantee of her liegemen themselves, because if she approves it, as mentioned above, so that the approval of her words of privilege, should be firm and well established by all, but if she does not approve, in the manner laid out above, and moreover should it be that the husband the king has made a grant to him or to her to whom he made this charter, and sealed it with the royal seal, this gift should not be valid by right or by assise.

Chapter 5
Here, you will hear the argument concerning to whom should the kingdom, should escheat, either to the children of the first kind or the children of the second king, and the value of the balliage that one holds, as long as that person is not of age to hold that baillage of the kingdom.

And if it happens that the queen who was widow remains and took another husband and children remained to her from the first husband, sons or daughters, reason dictates that after the death of the queen their mother, royalty escheats to the oldes of sons of the first