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Magna Carta
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...Magna Carta or Magna Charta [Lat., = great charter...does not vitiate the importance of the Magna Carta in the development of the British constitution...certain scholars came to maintain that the Magna Carta was a completely reactionary, not a progressive......
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John (king of England)
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......received it back as a papal fief.The Magna CartaJohn's submission to the...capitulation set his seal on the Magna Carta at Runnymede in June, 1215. Thus...Poole, From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087–1216 (2d ed. 1955......
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aids (in feudalism)
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......captivity. These are the three aids specified in the Magna Carta (1215), which forbade the king to levy aids from the...term had a much wider scope than was indicated in the Magna Carta. In general, aids fell into disuse with the decline......
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William II (king of England)
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......I.See E. A. Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus (1882, repr. 1970); A. L. Poole, From Domesday Book to Magna Carta (2d ed. 1955); D. W. Grinnell-Milne, The Killing of William Rufus (1968)....
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Henry I (king of England)
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......and the first appearance of the court of Exchequer date from this reign. See A. L. Poole, From Domesday Book to Magna Carta (2d ed. 1955); F. Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042–1216 (2d rev. ed. 1962)....
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Innocent III
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......annual tribute to the Holy See. Subsequently the pope stood by John after the barons coerced him into granting the Magna Carta, for Innocent declared it null as a forcibly exacted promise and also as a vassal's promise made without his overlord......
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National Archives
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......Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are housed in the National Archives Building, and a version of the English Magna Carta dating to 1297 is also on display. The overflow accumulation of millions of documents and other materials necessitated......
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Runnymede
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......south bank of the Thames River, W of London. Either on this meadow or on nearby Charter Island, King John accepted the Magna Carta (1215), which is commemorated by a memorial. There is also a memorial to John F. Kennedy on Runnymede....
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Grosseteste, Robert
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......suitable candidates to parish offices, and preaching to the people. Grosseteste fought for the maintenance of the Magna Carta. He thwarted efforts of Henry III to control ecclesiastical appointments, and as a member of the baronial council......
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Jihlava
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......precision instruments, and tobacco. Chartered in 1227, it was the site of the signing (1436) of the Compactata—the Magna Carta of the Hussites. The city has two medieval churches and a 16th-century town hall....