The reissued Charter of 1217 provided, instead of this, that scutage levies should remain at the rate as of the reign of Henry II.
At the same time, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard's mother, is working to raise the ransom through more legal methods: by taxing clergy and laymen for a quarter of the value of their property, confiscating the gold and silver treasures of the churches, and imposing scutage and carucage taxes.