The Magna Carta
In Our Time
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Magna Carta and the Barons
The bands actually took London through a ruse. There's a lot of the Londoners, perhaps with an unaccustomed party, where it masts. And so a faction of the city were able to let the barons in. Michael Clanchy: Magna Carta is not making innovations but reinforcing legal norms which were already understood to exist.
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