Magna Carta of Chester of the clauses in the Magna Carta of Chester and those in the Magna Carta indicates that it was written after King John issued the latter on 19 June 1215. In the early 1200s, the Earldom of Chester was the only county palatine on the Welsh Marches; Ranulf III ruled Chester as a separate feudal domain. His barons living outside of Cheshire are referred to as his 'knights from England'. In the late 12th century manuscript "De laude Cestrie", Lucian of Chester describes the county as obedient, 'more to the sword of its prince than to the crown of the
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