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The Magna Carta

In Our Time

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The Magna Carta Armies

There must have been meetings over a number of days, and that King John and his people. So much of Magna Carta concerns legal procedures, and its clauses are extremely carefully drafted. It's hard to find a redundant word in any clause in Magna carta. Each side has got experts as well as strong men negotiating, and then as well as church men. The scribes probably... Obviously. Copying it down, copying it down in Latin, first of all, perhaps in French as well, certainly not in English. They're speaking in French. Actually, some of them probably are ... Church men, there's no doubt that they spoke Latin among each other. I think

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