Posted on 02/10/2015 1:01:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv
An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England.
The tattered document dates back to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first agreement limiting the rights of kings. This version was issued by King Edward I (King John's grandson), who was under pressure from the church and the barons to reaffirm good governance, said Sophie Ambler, a research associate with the Magna Carta Project.
"Nobody knew it was there," Ambler said of the damaged document. "This Magna Carta had been stuck into a scrapbook by a Victorian official from the British Museum at the end of the 19th century."
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By contrast, the “Magna Farta” was earliest treatise on proctology.
Now I’m thinking of A. Sherman’s “Old King Louie”...
Simon met a bad end, but Edward I liked his idea of inviting the commons to Parliament and made it permanent.
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