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Magna Carta

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One of only four surviving exemplifications of the 1215 text, Cotton MS. Augustus II. 106, held by the British Library

Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter), also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin. It was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England, on 15 June 1215.[2]

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