Charter of the Forest: A Sister

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	Charter of the Forest: A Sister

n2teaching

12-6-2007 3:18 PM

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english common law, common law, magna carta, charter of the forest, oxford university, bodleian library, king henry iii, king john

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The Charter of the Forest was negotiated at the same time as the Magna Carta, and further spelled out some rights that belonged even to the common man; for instance, a king did not have the right to kill someone just because they hunted in the King's Forest.

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Henry's father, John, in 1215, and the two statutes need to be seen as 
complementary. The editors of the translation in <I>English Historical Documents</I> 
(set out below) pointed out that a new additional article (Clause 20) in the 
1217 text of Magna Carta makes clear that the drafting took place after a 
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