Note 40 — Chapter III · Recall of Judges.
Reading edition
I. Reeve’s History English Law, 280.
The conditions existing before the Barons exacted from King John the various guaranties of the Great Charter are known to all readers of English History. The reasons why they stipulated that “Right shall not be sold, delayed or denied”; that the king should only appoint “justiciaries, sheriffs and bailiffs, of such as know the law of the land and are disposed duly to observe it” is emphasized by a consideration of the many highhanded proceedings that the people of that long suffering country had been subjected to before this Great Charter of liberty was exacted from King John. (I. Reeve’s History English Law, 471, 472.)