Bored ? At a loose end ?

[electric*mayhem*band]

Have a read of the Magna Carta. You'll either nod off, or as Stephen Fry would say, find it -  'Quite Interesting'.

http://linklaters.onlineculture.co.uk/magnacarta/

Disclaimer.

[imastawka]

                             

[electric*mayhem*band]

Moderators ! Please step in and admonish Stawka. She's displaying a violent tendency, which is against eBay policy rules.

*rubs face*

[imastawka]

Actually, I was bored.  But then I put it on audio.  Much better

Sounded Quite Interesting in that upper class 'laydees' voice

[imastawka]

So, the Magna Carta is having it's 800th birthday next year, eh?

I see only three of it's clauses are still law.

(Do I sound knowledgeable)

One defends the freedom and rights of the English church,

another defends the liberties and customs of London and

other towns. The third is blah, blah, blah......to no one deny

or delay right or justice

                       

[electric*mayhem*band]

But you are still allowed to walk your geese and pigs up Banbury Street, Oxford, on a Sunday. Strange By-laws, what ?

[imastawka]

Well, now, that is only fair.   Sunday is fine.    How about

the rest of the week?

[imastawka]

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@imastawka wrote:

So, the Magna Carta is having it's 800th birthday next year, eh?

I see only three of it's clauses are still law.

(Do I sound knowledgeable)

One defends the freedom and rights of the English church,

another defends the liberties and customs of London and

other towns. The third is blah, blah, blah......to no one deny

or delay right or justice

                       

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A question, emb.

How is it, that the Magna Carta pre-dates Henry the VIII by 300 years,

yet it was Henry VIII that founded the Church of England???

Hmmmmmm???

[electric*mayhem*band]

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@imastawka wrote:

Well, now, that is only fair.   Sunday is fine.    How about

the rest of the week?

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Sorry for the delay Stawka, been feeding the swine.

I think on any other day of the week you can be dragged awf to the Tower, but don't quote me on that.

To your other question re old Henry the Eighth, you must ask Her Maj that one. She knows about those things.

Please address your request to:

Lizzie the Second,

Buck House,

London, SW1A - 1AA.

Don't forget to enclose an S.A.E. I believe things are rather tight in the Royal Household these days. Lots of cut backs.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Magna Carta means Great Charter and was used to curb the absolute power of the King (King John) - it has nothing to do with the Reformation or the Church, as such. It was drawn up at a secret meetingof a group of Barons  in Bury St Edmunds (they met under the pretext of being on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Edmund) and was  later signed it (under duress)  by the King at Runnymede.

The coat of arms of Bury St Edmunds bears the motto "Vexilla Regis, Cunabula Legis".in honour of this event ( and alsoin memory  of St. Edmund, the last Saxon King of East Anglia, who was killed by the Vikings in 869 and was buried in the Abbey at Bury St Edmunds.