CHART

A hydrographic map for the use of navigators, being a projection of some part of a coast on a plane surface. Charts as well as ordinary maps may be constructed on any of the principles by which a spherical surface is represented on a plane; but they are generally laid down according to Mercat or's projection, in which the meridians,and consequently also the parallels of latitude, are represented by parallel straight lines, the degrees of long i. tude on all the parallels being equal to those of the equa tor, and the degrees of latitude being increased from the equator towards the pole, so as to bear always the same III. It is reported to have beet) chiefly drawn up by the Earl of Pembroke and Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury. Its most Important articles are those which provide that no freeBtao shall be taken or imprisoned or proceeded against, by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law t»fthe land," and thai no scutage or aid should be imposed in the kioL'do in (except certain feudal dues from tenants ■own) unle by the common council of the kingdom The remaining and greater part of it Is directed of the king's power as feudal superior. [s. 230]