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History Makers: Bad King John Robin Hood’s nemesis

BAD KING JOHN

THE MAGNA CARTA KING KING JOHN DIDN’T ACTUALLY SIGN MAGNA CARTA, AS ILLUSTRATED HERE, BUT GRANTED HIS ROYAL SEAL TO IT

There is a meadow on the outskirts of London, sat on the bank of the River ames in Surrey. It doesn’t look like much, certainly not a spot heavy with symbolic meaning, but that field, Runnymede, is where one of the founding documents of human liberty was created and agreed on, 800 years ago.

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