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Magna Carta, 1225
This early-fourteenth-century manuscript opens with Magna Carta. The gilt letter "H" at the beginning of the text is the first letter of the name Henricus, or King Henry III, son of King John, who reissued Magna Carta (through his regent, the Earl of Pembroke) in 1216, in 1217, and then again in 1225. The Magna Carta included in this manuscript is the heavily abridged 1225 issue of the charter, which eliminated many passages that appeared in King John's original 1215 issue, including the requirement to take counsel with the kingdom's stakeholders before raising taxes and the provisions that empowered the barons to enforce the charter if the king violated its terms. |