There was little to indicate that we were near the spot where, 800 years ago, King John ... Although John did not know it at the time, when he agreed to put his seal to Magna Carta, he was both ...

King John was king of ... to something by putting a wax seal as a signature, which is why many people tend to say now that King John ‘signed’ the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta was designed ...

King John, as anyone familiar ... and the principles contained in Magna Carta did not apply to them.) The document was rewritten within ten years, and most of its original 63 clauses are now ...

During the reigns of King John, his son Henry III and grandson Edward I, the charter was revised several times. Today, 17 original versions of Magna Carta, penned from 1215 to 1297, survive.