[Sca-cooks] pre-Magna-Carta reigns

[Terry Decker]

I really question this statement.  After the signing, John hired mercenaries 
to fight the Barons, but he died about a year after the signing during a 
rather unsuccessful conflict.

William Marshall, who had brokered the Magna Carta for John, became regent 
for John's son and reaffirmed the charter.  Had the Barons been eradicated, 
William Marshall could have ignored the issue.

Bear

> An interesting point is that every Baron who forced John into
> signing the Magna Carta wound up either dead or broken within
> a year. John was not a man to be messed with.
>
> Gunthar