Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . he stern and resolute faces before him. Give me till Easter to think about this, he said. The barons understood him, and when they presented the charter again, at Oxford, they had two thousand armed knights at their back. Langton read aloud the demands of the people, which ended with the sentence, And if these claims are not immediately granted, our arms shall do us justice. John angrily refused to sign the charter. The barons atonce levied war agains
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . he stern and resolute faces before him. Give me till Easter to think about this, he said. The barons understood him, and when they presented the charter again, at Oxford, they had two thousand armed knights at their back. Langton read aloud the demands of the people, which ended with the sentence, And if these claims are not immediately granted, our arms shall do us justice. John angrily refused to sign the charter. The barons atonce levied war against hm, calling themselves the armyof God and of the Holy Church. Robert FitzWalter waselected commander, and London opened her gates to thearmy. When John saw that further delay meant the loss ofhis crown, he asked the leaders to name a day and placewhere he could meet them. Let the day, they replied, be the 15th of June and theplace Runnymede. And there on the Thames near Londonthe barons met the king with a few followers, and com-pelled him to sign the Magna Carta, or Great Charter,which became the foundation stone of English liberty. It. John Signing Magna Carta 68 HISTORY OF ENGLAND [1215-16 has been confirmed by more than thirty kings and Parlia-ments since that time, and is still considered the mostimportant document in the history of the English people. 63. Provisions of the Charter.—In the charter the kingagreed, among many other things, to levy no taxes with-out the consent of the Great Council of the did not mean that he was to give up his ancientfeudal rights, but that he was not to go beyond thoserights. No freeman was to be outlawed or imprisoned,or to have his property taken from him, except by thejudgment of a lawful court where the jury would be men ofhis own rank. Church lands were not to be unjustly taxed,nor was the king to interfere with the clergy in their rightto elect from among themselves such church dignitaries asbishops and archbishops. J
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