The parliament also ratified the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton which ended the First War of Scottish Independence.

Chapter 3 would later be argued in legal disputes in the United States of America about Second Amendment rights.

It said The modern relevance of the legislation has been disputed: firearms did not exist at the time, and it is not immediately clear whether "nor to go nor to ride armed" (originally ne de chivaucher ne de daler arme in Anglo-Norman French) referred to carrying weapons or to wearing armour; it is also not clear whether it should be read primarily as permitting riding armed in the context of an official militia or posse, or as a prohibition in other situations.

[2] Chapter 15 regulated fairs and in particular required a lord to follow a royal charter or established usage to keep a fair open "for the Time that they ought to hold it, and no longer," with pre-publication of the closing time, subject to a fine for the lord and grievous punishment for the merchants if the fair stayed open longer.

3. c. 5), allowing private citizens to prosecute cases and receive a quarter of the fines based on double the value of improperly sold goods.