The previous chapter located the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 within their immediate context, as one of the products of the ‘reform movement’ of 1258–9, and traced in general terms the stages by which the legislation developed from the first requests for legislation in the Petition of the Barons of the summer of 1258 through three separate drafts of part or all of the legislation to the final published text of October 1259. This chapter and the next locate the Provisions within a rather different broader contemporary setting by looking at the social and legal context of the individual clauses and the changes in the law which they were intended to produce. Only in this way is it possible to gauge the importance and significance of the changes which the Provisions were attempting to make. These two chapters will also trace the ways in which the proposals for legislation and individual clauses changed during the course of the drafting process, reflecting the care and effort that went into it. This chapter deals with those reforms which were concerned with different facets of the relationship between lords and their tenants and with the relationship between landowners and those who managed their lands, and those which made improvements in the procedures of the king's central courts.