Comment by willmeyers
16 hours ago
When I visited London a few years ago I went to the British Library and stumbled into their collection (and it was incredibly impressive). I had no idea they had two original Magna Cartas. If you have a chance to see the document at Harvard, you should! It's really something.
The Harvard document is a copy of Edward I's 1297 Great Charter that is still partly in force today.
There were earlier versions of the Magna Carta; originally authored by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1215, rejected, revised and eventually reissued and negotiated (largely by force) by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke in 1217.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/magn...
Fun fact, there's an inconsistent comma that changes the meaning of clause XXIX.
This comment is the first result when searching "inconsistent comma clause 29 magna carta" on Google. Can you link to a source?
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/section/X...
now compare
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Magna_Ca...
to
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Magna_Ca...
There's a smudge. Of law
The fourth (and best preserved of all) Magna Cartas is on display in the Chapter House of the cathedral in Salisbury.