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A spring dawn breaks over
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London. For
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a moment, the night's silence is
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broken only by the crowing of
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a few cockerels and
0:44
the lap of the River Thames against its banks.
0:49
But as the day's first light creeps
0:51
over the city's ancient walls, there's
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another sound. The
0:59
peal of a single church bell.
1:04
It chimes, slow and
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insistent, echoing
1:07
over the cramped rooftops. But
1:11
it doesn't ring alone for long. Soon,
1:15
somewhere else in the city, another
1:17
church bell starts ringing. Then
1:21
another. Then another.
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The bells' tolling builds as
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more and more of them join
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the morning chorus. There are more
1:31
than 100 churches inside London's
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Square Mile. And soon enough, almost
1:36
all of their bells are sounding together.
1:44
It's May 17th, 1215, a Sunday morning.
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This is the time for the 25,000 or so people in the city
1:54
to assemble in divine worship.
1:57
Maybe to ask the Lord for mercy.
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It's fair to say that England,
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divided and miserable under
2:05
the rule of King John, could use
2:07
a bit of that. Not
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everyone is at prayer, though. Outside
2:14
the city, watching the walls from a safe
2:17
distance, is an imposing man
2:19
in fine clothes. His
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name is Robert Fitzwalter,
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and behind him stands a group
2:27
of barons and supporters. They
2:30
call themselves the Army
2:32
of God. The
2:35
Army of God is united by
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one thing, their
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rebels against John's rule.
2:44
And these rebels have been waiting for the bells
2:46
of London to start ringing. It's
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the signal that their time has
2:52
come. The
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day before, the rebels were in Bedford,
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about sixty miles away to the north,
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plotting how to take John down. They'd
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seized a few set-and-raped castles
3:06
in the Midlands and had John sweating,
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but they were a long way from having
3:12
him on the ropes. Then
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everything changed. Brothers
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from London found them at Bedford and
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gave them a simple, exciting
3:22
instruction. Get down to the
3:24
capital as soon as you can, they said. You'll
3:26
find friends there. As
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one chronicler summed it up, the
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rich citizens were favorable to
3:33
the barons, and the poor were
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afraid to murmur against them. Hearing
3:39
that, the Army of God rode
3:41
and marched through the night to get
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there in time for the dawn.
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When the bells start to peel for Sunday
3:50
morning service, they rush to
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the city's walls. At the top
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of those walls are the usual guards,
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but they don't sound the alarm. as
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promised, there on the baron's
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side. The
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gates are barred, but some
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of the baron's men manage to throw
4:09
up ladders and clamber over the
4:11
walls. Then
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they take command of the gates and throw
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them open for the rest of the army
4:18
of God to charge through. Once
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they're in, they slam the gates behind
4:24
them. Which
4:28
is just as well. John's
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illegitimate brother, William Longsword,
4:32
has been hot on their heels with a force
4:35
of Flemish mercenaries. He
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arrives to find that he's too late. The
4:40
city is shut up and guarded
4:42
against him. In
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the space of a few hours, without
4:47
spilling a drop of blood, the
4:49
army of God has snatched control
4:52
of the capital of England. They
4:55
control the Tower of London, which holds
4:57
a huge cache of royal weapons and
4:59
armour. And they can stop
5:01
the king getting to his treasury at Westminster.
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It's an incredible coup, and
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it totally transforms the rebel
5:10
baron's position. A couple
5:12
of weeks ago, they'd been outlawed by
5:14
the king and condemned by
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John's frenemy in chief, Pope
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Innocent III. They were
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wondering how they could ever force
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this slippery, plantagenet king
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to mend his ways. Now
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they hold the perfect bargaining chip,
5:30
John's capital city. They
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send menacing messages out around
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England, demanding that all John's
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other subjects join them while there's still
5:40
time, or face the consequences
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later. Then they
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wait for John to do the only
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thing he possibly can do. Reach
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out for peace talks. They
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think they have their chance to bring
5:57
this feckless plantagenet to heel.
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It's a fair bet that if you pull your headphones
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out of your ears, stop listening to this
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podcast for a second, and ask
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the nearest person to you whether they've heard
7:45
of Magna Carta,
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they'll say yes.
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But it's also a fair bet that if
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you ask them what Magna Carta actually
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says, what it meant in its time,
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and what it means today, they
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might mutter something about... democracy
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and government, but beyond that they won't
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have a clue.
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Which is kind of weird.
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Magna Carta is so famous that
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Jay-Z once named an album after
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it. There's a medieval copy
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of it on proud display in the US
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National Archives. On
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the 800th anniversary of its agreement
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a few years back, there were huge public
8:22
commemorations and celebrations on
8:25
both sides of the Atlantic. During
8:28
the Covid lockdowns a rumour went around
8:30
England that if you printed out a bit
8:32
of Magna Carta and taped it up
8:34
in the window of your business the government
8:37
couldn't force you to close up shop. Yet
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if you sit down and read Magna
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Carta, either in its medieval
8:45
Latin or a modern English translation,
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you're likely to find yourself lost quite
8:51
quickly in its dense technical
8:53
clauses defining 13th century
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feudal customs, tax rates and particular
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legal liberties for particular places.
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There are a couple of lines in the middle that seem
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to enshrine basic principles of government
9:07
under the rule of law, that free
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men have the right to be tried by their peers
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and that the king won't sell, deny
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or delay justice. But
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there's nothing in there that even tries
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to spell out the philosophical principles
9:22
of government. Nothing that
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has anything to do with what we might call
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democracy. When
9:28
you look Magna Carta in the eye it
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can be very hard to work out
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what on earth all the fuss is
9:35
about. Even the name just
9:37
means great charter, hardly
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a great clue. So
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for a second let's park what Magna
9:45
Carta means and think a bit
9:47
about what it physically is and
9:50
how it came into being. In
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May 1215, John's in what we'd technically
9:57
call a right old pickle. As
10:01
we've already heard in this podcast, his bid
10:03
to win back the Plantagenet lands in Normandy
10:05
that Philip Augustus took from him went
10:08
spectacularly wrong. He
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piled money, much of it extorted
10:13
in outrageous raids on his barons
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or filched from the church, into
10:17
a grand military alliance. But
10:20
his allies were crushed in battle at Bouvine
10:23
in the summer of 1214. Now
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his barons have had it up to here with
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him, and they want him to agree
10:31
to mend his ways and reform
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his realm. Gon's
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policy up to this point has been to
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duck, dive and dodge committing
10:40
to any reforms at all. All
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the while he's been trying to scrape
10:46
together an army of mercenaries
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to face down the rebels. He's
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taken crusade vowels to get the
10:53
Pope onside. All
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of that might have succeeded
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had the barons not seized London.
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Now they have though, John really
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hasn't got much choice but to negotiate
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with them. The other option is
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full blown civil war, which he'd be
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starting at a big disadvantage
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since he doesn't hold his own capital. So
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John sends words to his barons that
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he'll meet them in a formal parlay.
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The place they agree on is a large
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expanse of meadowland in the Thames
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Valley not far from Windsor
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Castle. It's known as runnymead,
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and it's somewhat of a tradition for
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people to meet there to sort out their differences.
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Since it's a meadow, wetland, it's
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no good for fighting on horseback. There
11:45
are also not many bridges over
11:47
the Thames around here, so it's hard
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to mount a surprise attack. John
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tells his barons to meet him there in June,
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and heads to Windsor Castle to prepare
11:58
his case.
11:59
set up camp in the nearby
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town of Stains.
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In the second week of June 1215, they meet
12:05
in the middle at Runnymede.
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Runnymede today is a really nice spot. I
12:15
live just down the road, and now and again
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I like to walk my dog there. There's
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lots of green open space, the river
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runs gently past, and other
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than the planes that take off every 90 seconds
12:27
or so from nearby Heathrow Airport, it's
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pretty tranquil.
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In June 1215 though, it's
12:36
anything but tranquil. If
12:38
we want to picture what the great meeting
12:41
at Runnymede looked like, I think
12:43
it's best to imagine a cross between a G8
12:45
summit of world leaders and, well,
12:48
the Glastonbury Festival. The
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meadow is a sea of brightly
12:54
coloured tents and pavilions, set
12:56
up as breakout rooms for sub-committees
12:59
to toss back and forth the various
13:01
political hot potatoes that are bothering
13:03
the army of God. In
13:06
some of them, royal officials and the barons
13:08
representatives are thrashing out what
13:11
is a fair rate of inheritance tax
13:13
when a noble inherits his father's estates. In
13:16
another, the rights of widows to hang
13:19
on to their own property are under discussion. In
13:22
the next, London's bigwigs are
13:24
demanding that they receive all sorts of guarantees
13:27
that the king won't mess
13:29
with their political freedoms. In
13:31
a fourth, merchants are complaining
13:34
about their own pet peeve, fish
13:36
traps being placed in rivers, which makes
13:38
it hard for their boats to get from port
13:40
to port. All
13:45
this goes on for days. Overseeing
13:48
the negotiations are churchmen, led
13:51
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton.
13:54
Templars and abbots mill around,
13:57
reminding everyone to play nice. There
14:00
are endless breakout groups where
14:02
pockets of political movers and shakers
14:04
talk urgently with each other, trying
14:07
to come up with some solution to the latest
14:09
deadlock in discussions. Periodically,
14:13
a royal barge floats downriver from
14:15
Windsor a few miles away, and
14:18
John casts his eye over proceedings.
14:21
He's trying to keep his cool rather
14:23
than going full-blown Henry II
14:26
and screaming threats. He's
14:28
being kept updated on the progress
14:30
of negotiations by his lawyers and
14:33
officials. And as the days
14:35
go by, they, and he,
14:37
are starting to agree the exact wording
14:40
of the concessions he's going to make to
14:42
his barons. On
14:44
Wednesday, June the 10th, John
14:46
gets off his barge and holds discussions
14:49
in person with his advisers and
14:51
opponents, all day. By
14:55
this point, there's an agreement that's basically
14:57
ready to go. No doubt
14:59
the rebels have been worried that John won't cooperate
15:02
or play nice. They're
15:05
pleasantly surprised. John lets
15:07
it be known that on Monday, June the 15th,
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he's going to come to the conference site in
15:12
person and make it all official.
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And so he does. But the way
15:18
he makes it official is nothing
15:20
like the images you usually see. There's
15:23
no big desk set up with a giant
15:26
quill and a sheet of parchment waiting
15:28
for the royal autograph. No
15:30
documents in this age are signed. That
15:33
only comes in much later in the Middle
15:35
Ages. Nor is there
15:37
a big jug of ceiling wax and
15:39
a rubber stamp waiting. Ceiling
15:43
is a process of certifying that a document
15:45
is not a fake. The act
15:47
of ceiling doesn't mean a thing.
15:51
No, the way the runnymede agreement
15:53
is made official is this. John
15:57
holds a formal audience with
15:59
his rebellious...
15:59
Barron,
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and a list of the reforms that
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have been agreed upon is read out.
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John and the Barron's representatives all
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swear a solemn oath to uphold
16:11
the terms of the agreement. Once
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that's done, or more likely while
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it's being done, a small battalion
16:19
of clerks and scribes are hard
16:21
at work making copies of the text
16:23
of the agreement. These are
16:25
going to be distributed around the country via
16:28
the Royal Sheriffs and the Church.
16:32
There are so many copies made that
16:34
the Royal Chancery, that's the office
16:36
which draws up official documents, actually
16:38
runs out of clerks. They
16:40
have to draft in monks who are more
16:42
used to copying out biblical texts and
16:45
prayer books. Then,
16:49
on the Friday of that week, June
16:51
19th, John holds a big
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feast at which he invites his Barons
16:56
one by one to renew what's known as their
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homage to him. That's the
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faithful feudal promise that they'll
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be loyal and obedient to him, and
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not go around trying to nick his castles,
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murder his kids, or generally give him
17:10
grief. Once
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they've knelt before John and renewed
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their vows, they are formally taken
17:18
back into John's good books with
17:20
a kiss of peace. They are
17:22
his faithful men once more. And
17:26
that's important, because Magna
17:28
Carta, as the agreement they've drawn
17:30
up will one day be called, is
17:32
specifically and exclusively
17:35
granted to his free and
17:38
faithful men. Only
17:42
four original copies of the Runnymede Agreement
17:44
of June 1215, or Magna
17:46
Carta, survive to this day. Two
17:49
are kept in the British Library, one in Lincoln
17:52
Castle, and the other in Salisbury Cathedral.
17:55
From their tiny, heavily abbreviated
17:57
Latin script, we can still read
18:00
today the exact form of
18:02
the agreement that John made with his
18:04
Baron. I still find it amazing
18:07
to read the words that were actually scratched
18:09
out on parchment in Prato
18:11
Quad Vocatur Ronimede into
18:13
Wendell Sorum et Stannis, or
18:16
if you want a loose translation, in the field
18:19
where I walk my poodle. But
18:23
in 1215 there's one big problem
18:25
with Magna Carta. John
18:27
grants it all right, but he has no
18:30
intention of keeping to its terms.
18:33
And hiding in plain sight in Magna
18:35
Carta is a clause that will turn
18:37
John's bad faith into
18:39
the basis for all-out
18:42
war.
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As the Clarkes Quills scratched
19:55
across the parchment at Runnymede, making
19:58
copies of Magna Carta, they
20:00
probably did not consider that people
20:02
would still be quoting the words they were
20:04
writing more than eight hundred
20:06
years later. For the
20:09
most part, they were right. For
20:11
example, after Magna Carta
20:13
guaranteed that John wouldn't interfere
20:16
in the affairs of the church, he'd promised
20:18
this. If any earl, baron,
20:20
or other person that holds lands directly
20:23
of the crown for military service shall die,
20:25
and at his death his heir shall be of full age and
20:27
owe a relief, the heir shall have his inheritance
20:30
on payment of the ancient scale of relief, that
20:32
is to say, the heir or heirs of an earl
20:34
shall pay one hundred pounds for the entire earl's
20:36
barony, the heir or heirs of a knight one hundred
20:39
shillings at most of the entire knight's
20:41
fee, and any man that owes less shall pay
20:43
less in accordance with the ancient usage
20:45
of fees. It
20:48
doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, right? Nor
20:51
do most of the other sixty-three clauses. There
20:54
are, of course, a couple of exceptions. Most
20:56
famously, the clauses we usually number
20:59
thirty-nine and forty. No
21:02
free man shall be seized, imprisoned,
21:04
dispossessed, outlawed, exiled,
21:07
or ruined in any way, nor
21:09
in any way preceded against, except
21:12
by the lawful judgment of his peers
21:15
and the law of the land. That
21:18
kind of means John won't confiscate all
21:20
your land with no warning and throw you in jail
21:22
to starve to death just because he
21:24
feels like it. Then
21:27
there's this. To no one
21:29
will we sell, to no one will
21:31
we deny or delay right or
21:34
justice. Now
21:36
these definitely have more
21:38
of a universal ring about them, but
21:41
if we dig into them a bit they're
21:43
not so universal after all. Many
21:46
people who are both men and free
21:49
get to enjoy the freedoms Magna Carta
21:51
promises. It's only
21:53
with a lot of retrospect, mostly
21:56
four hundred years after John's reign, during
21:59
the English Civil War. War in the 17th
22:01
century that anyone starts
22:03
claiming that Magna Carta is the foundation
22:06
stone of liberty. If
22:08
we want to understand why we revere
22:11
Magna Carta today, it's really a conversation
22:13
about the history of the Enlightenment,
22:16
not the Plantagenet period. In 1215
22:19
itself, there's
22:21
one clause in particular that's
22:23
at the heart of everything that follows.
22:27
It's almost never quoted because it's
22:29
very long and technical, but
22:31
the idea it contains is absolutely
22:34
critical to getting our heads around
22:37
the basic problem we've drawn.
22:40
It also gets to the heart of one of the
22:42
thorniest questions about government in
22:44
Britain, which still, in a way,
22:47
troubles us today. The
22:49
clause is one of the very last
22:51
ones. It's usually numbered clause 61.
22:55
It's sometimes nicknamed the Security
22:58
Clause. I
23:01
won't quote it all because if you wanted
23:03
to go to sleep listening to a podcast, you
23:05
could just download some white noise, but
23:07
the essence of it is this. John
23:11
promises that if he or any
23:14
of his royal officials break the terms
23:16
of Magna Carta, and John refuses
23:18
to put it right, then a specially
23:21
elected council of 25 barons will
23:24
be legally allowed to assail
23:27
us in every way possible by
23:29
seizing our castles, lands, possessions,
23:32
or anything else, saving only
23:34
our own person and those
23:36
of the Queen and our children. I
23:39
think it's fair to say that this charter
23:41
is not mucking around, because
23:44
what is it actually saying?
23:46
This
23:49
is supposed to be a peace negotiation
23:52
to stop the army of God going
23:54
to war with John. Yet,
23:57
if any point of Magna Carta is broken,
23:59
then clause 61. Pause 61 kicks
24:01
in and starts a civil
24:03
war. You
24:05
can see what the Barons were thinking
24:08
of course. They didn't trust John
24:10
any further than they could throw him. They
24:13
had to try and come up with some
24:15
way of making sure that he didn't
24:17
just ignore the Charter they'd
24:19
wrung out of him. But
24:21
you can also see what John's thinking. This
24:24
Charter contains such a deep flaw
24:27
that it isn't really worth the parchment
24:30
it's written on. It's
24:32
not long before that becomes blindingly
24:35
obvious. Because what happens
24:38
is this. For
24:43
about a month after Magna Carta
24:45
is granted and sent out around the country,
24:48
John grudgingly sticks to its terms.
24:51
He starts formally returning castles
24:53
that have been confiscated from the rebels. But
24:56
it doesn't take long for John to get fed
24:58
up with playing Mr. Obedient. His
25:01
health is suffering, he's laid up in
25:04
bed with gout, and he's in a
25:06
very bad mood.
25:08
So in July he starts being outright
25:11
petulant. He starts
25:13
ranting that he thinks the Barons should now
25:15
issue their own Charter, promising to obey
25:18
him and all his heirs. Needless
25:21
to say, this doesn't go down
25:23
well. So John, almost
25:26
unable to help himself, does
25:28
the utterly predictable. Remember
25:31
that now he has taken his Crusader vows,
25:33
he has Pope Innocent III on speed
25:35
dial. He gets letters
25:37
off post-haste to Rome, telling
25:40
Innocent what has happened. The
25:42
letters get to Innocent in mid-August.
25:45
The Pope's replies arrive in England
25:47
in early September. And what
25:50
they say is explosive. The
25:53
enemy of the human race, that's
25:55
Satan, not John, in case you're wondering, by
25:58
his cunning wiles. has stirred
26:00
up the barons of England and caused
26:03
them to rebel. Innocent
26:05
says that in Magna Carta John
26:08
has been forced to accept
26:10
an agreement which is not only shameful
26:12
and demeaning but also illegal
26:15
and unjust. Then he
26:18
drops the bomb. We utterly
26:20
reject and condemn this settlement and
26:23
under threat of excommunication we
26:25
order that the king should not dare to observe
26:27
it and that the barons and their associates
26:30
should not require it to be observed.
26:33
We declare it null and void
26:36
of all validity forever.
26:39
John is absolutely delighted
26:42
by this. His barons, needless
26:44
to say, are appalled. They
26:47
thought they could bring John to heel.
26:51
They were wrong.
26:53
So some of them decide that this means
26:55
simply making war on John isn't
26:58
sufficient. He's never
27:00
going to change. He's never going
27:03
to be anything but John.
27:06
Enough is enough. It's
27:08
time to get rid of him altogether and
27:10
hand over the English crown to
27:13
someone else. Which
27:15
is convenient because that someone
27:17
else just happens to be waiting for
27:19
the bat signal to go up. Across
27:23
the channel, Philip Augustus, King
27:26
of France, has been monitoring events
27:28
in England with some glee. He's
27:30
been biding his time, waiting
27:32
for the perfect moment to act.
27:36
Or rather, the perfect moment for
27:38
someone else to act. Philip
27:41
is 50, a bit long in the tooth
27:43
to go invading England himself, but
27:46
he has a son, 28-year-old Louis, known
27:50
as Louis the Lion.
27:53
Louis is raring to go. England
27:58
is just the sort of challenge he needs. needs.
28:02
In September 1215, the English
28:04
barons write to the French court and invite
28:06
Louis the Lion
28:09
to come and replace John as King of
28:11
England. Louis doesn't need asking
28:14
twice. But
28:19
that's for next time on This
28:21
is History. Before
28:30
you go, a reminder that we have
28:32
some fantastic
28:34
subscriber-only content just waiting
28:41
for you on This is History Plus. This
28:44
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28:46
into the various intriguing clauses
28:48
of Magna Carta and looking at why
28:50
it still holds so much fascination
28:53
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