The grammar is perfectly intelligible, and this is the surest mark of similarity of language; we may, however, note the use of _send_ as a contraction of _sendeth_, and of _oni_ for "any man" in the singular, while _onie_, being plural, represents "any men." The other chief variations are in the vocabulary or word-list, due to the fact that this Proclamation is older than the reigns of the first three Edwards, which was the period when so many words of Anglo-Norman origin entered our language, displacing many words of native origin that thus became obsolete; though some were exchanged for other _native_ words.

We may notice, for example, _fultume_, "assistance"; _holde_, "faithful"; _il{ae}rde and ileawede_, "learned and unlearned"; _unnen_, "grant"; _r{ae}desmen_, "councillors"; _kuneriche_, "kingdom"; and so on.

I subjoin a closely literal translation, retaining awkward expressions.
{P} Henry, through God's assistance, king in England, Lord in Ireland, Duke in Normandy, in Aquitaine, and Earl in Anjou, sendeth greeting to all his faithful, learned and unlearned, in Huntingdonshire; that wit ye well all, that we will and grant that which our councillors all, or the more deal (_part_) of them, that be chosen through us and through the land's folk in our kingdom, have done and shall do in the worship of God and in our truth, for the benefit of the land, through the provision of the beforesaid councillors, be steadfast and lasting in all things without end.

And we command all our true-men, in the truth that they us owe, that they steadfastly hold, and swear to hold and to defend, the statutes that be made and be to make, through the aforesaid councillors, or through the more deal of them, even as it is before said; and that each help other that for to do, by the same oath, against all men, right for to do and to receive.

And (let) none take of land nor of property, wherethrough this provision may be let or worsened in any wise.