Magna Carta the King in the charters. In addition, medieval cases referred to the clauses in Magna Carta which dealt with specific issues such as wardship and dower, debt collection, and keeping rivers free for navigation. Even in the 13th century, some clauses of Magna Carta rarely appeared in legal cases, either because the issues concerned were no longer relevant, or because Magna Carta had been superseded by more relevant legislation. By 1350 half the clauses of Magna Carta were no longer actively used. During the reign of King Edward III six measures, later known as the "Six Statutes", were passed between
Magna Carta of Chester but makes no specific mention of wardship. The clause is so brief that it suggests the outrage fuelling "Magna Carta" Clauses 2 - 8 were of less concern to the barons of Cheshire. Clause 13 contains the strongest link to the "Magna Carta", with its insistence that, ‘all common knights and free tenants of the whole of Cheshire,’ should enjoy the same treatment from the barons, as the barons would have from the earl. This parallels the "Magna Carta's" Clause 60, which extends its concessions to ‘all men of our realm’. When the "Magna Carta" was reconfirmed in 1300 by