The colophon, reproduced here, features the correct year of 1539. The lovely little volume was printed by a well-known printer of English law books, Robert Redman. While manuscript copies had been in ...

The display is to mark the 800th anniversary of the second Magna Carta in the Cathedral's collection. Magna Carta, or the ...

Edited by Janet S. Loengard, Professor of History Emerita, Moravian College, Bethlehem. PA Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central ...

People have referred back to the Magna Carta at different points in history and some sections of it are still relevant to English law today. The Magna Carta was quoted during the events leading up ...

Magna Carta, signed in 1215 by King John, was a royal charter of rights designed to bring peace between the King and his barons. Although it is one of the foundational documents of English law ...

Magna Carta outlined basic rights with the principle ... are still valid - the one guaranteeing the liberties of the English Church; the clause confirming the privileges of the City of London ...