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Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Carta, the *Great Char-ter, held sacred as the safeguard of English liberties, was aninstrument which the English barons and clergy wrested fromKing John, and in which the ancient rights and privileges of thepeople were clearly defined and guaranteed. The circumstances which led up to this memorable transaction,narrated in the briefest way possible, were as follows. Among thekings of foreign race whom the Norman Conquest brought intoEngland there were those who disregarded the customs and insti-tutions of the realm and ruled in a very arbitrary and despoticmanner. King John, as will easily be believed from the revelationof his character already made, surpassed the worst of his prede-cessors in tyranny and wickedness. His course led to an openrevolt of the barons of the realm. The tyrant was forced to bowto the storm he had raised. He met his barons at Runnymede, aflat meadow on the Thames, near Windsor, and there affixed hisseal to the instrument that had been prepared to receive it.
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THE GREAT CHARTER 203 Among the important articles of the Great Charter were thefollowing, which we give as showing at once the nature of thevenerable document and the kind of grievances of which the peo-ple had occasion to complain. Art. 12. No scutage^ or aid shall be imposed in our kingdomexcept by the common council of our kingdom, except for the ran-soming of our body, for the making of our oldest son a knight, andfor once marrying our oldest daughter, and for these purposes it shallbe only a reasonable aid ;■*... Art. 39. No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispos-sessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will wego upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of hispeers or by the law of the land. Art. 40. To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delayright or justice. The Great Charter did not create new rights and privileges,but in its main points simply reasserted and confirmed old usagesand laws. It was immediately violat

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