[Sca-cooks] pre-Magna-Carta reigns

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>> Adamantius complained:
>>> We're in the midst of another "pre-Magna-Carta" reign here in the
>>> East. I just wish the people who say that had actually read Magna
>>> Carta and knew what is was, and what it signified. 'Nuff said...
>
> Someone mentioned this weekend in a discussion that John supposedly  
> put
> the rights of the common man, such as "A freeman shall not be amerced
> for a slight offense, except in accordance with the degree of the
> offense", and others, into the Magna Carta, assuming that would cause
> the barons to reject it; and when they did not, he enforced them  
> just to
> annoy the barons. I like it.

I like it, too. That'll teach them to wave the rights of the freeman  
around like a flag, and I'll bet many of them thought it a small  
price to pay to have some of their own traditional freedoms restored.  
Curia, anyone?

Adamantius




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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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