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A 1297 copy of Magna Carta, owned by the Australian Government and on display in the Members' Hall of Parliament House, Canberra. Only two exemplifications of Magna Carta are held outside England, both from 1297. One of these was purchased in 1952 by the Australian Government for £12,500 from King's School, Bruton, England. [316]
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Magna Carta Hiberniae 1216 [1] (or the Great Charter of Ireland) is an issue of the English Magna Carta (or Great Charter of Liberties) in Ireland. King Henry III of England 's charter of 1216 was issued for Ireland on 12 November 1216 but not transmitted to Ireland until February 1217 ; it secured rights for the Anglo-Norman magnates in ...
The Lincoln copy is usually on display in the David P J Ross Magna Carta Vault in Lincoln Castle, together with the Lincoln copy of Magna Carta. A manuscript of the 1225 reissue narrowly escaped destruction in 1865 and is now available in the British Library (Add. Ch. 24712). [19]
William of Huntingfield (died c. 1225 [1]) was a medieval English baron, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and one of the sureties of Magna Carta. He held Dover Castle for King John from September 1203 (as a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports) [2] and in exchange, the king took his son and daughter hostage. [1]
Documentary film on the making of Magna Carta (An Embroidery). Magna Carta (An Embroidery) is a 2015 work by English installation artist Cornelia Parker. [1] It is an embroidered representation of the complete text and images of an online encyclopedia article for Magna Carta, as it appeared on the English Wikipedia on 15 June 2014, the 799th anniversary of the document.
Historical precedents such as Magna Carta and The Bill of Rights 1689, had established the principle that the King was not to interfere with the Rights of Englishmen held by the people. In the view of the American colonies, the King had opposed the very purpose of governance by opposing laws deemed necessary for the public good. [2]