Adams, M., 104
Agincourt, commemoration of battle of, 1, 5
‘Agreement of the People’, see Levellers
Albigensian Crusade, 31
Alexander II of Scotland, 21
American Civil War, centenary of, 12
ancient constitution, idea of, 54, 62, 66–7, 69, 72, 79–80, 102–7, 112–13, 115–6
Anne, Princess, 25
Anti-Federalists (U.S.) and Magna Carta, 96, 98
Apprentice Boys, commemoration of in Londonderry/Derry, 12–13
archbishops of Canterbury,
Stephen Langton, 25, 28–9, 30–1, 42–9
Edmund of Abingdon, 46–8
Armistice Day 1918, 8
debates over, 11
commemoration in 2008, 14
Arthur (King Arthur), 59
Arthur of Brittany, nephew of King John, 18, 27–8
Arts and Humanities Research Council, see Magna Carta Project
Baker, John, 52
Baldwin, John, 41–4
Bastille, fall of, 1789, 13
B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Corporation), 1–2
‘In Our Time’ on Magna Carta, 6
Beardmore, Arthur, 108–10, 113
Beijing, 15
Peking University (PKU), ix–x
Renmin University, 9
Bicchieri, Guala, 34
Bill of Rights (Great Britain, 1689), 26, 104–5
Bill of Rights (United States, 1791), 32, 98–9
bishops, role in the making of Magna Carta, 41–50
Blackstone, William, 82–4, 106
Bland, Richard, 81
Bocking, Essex, 24
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first viscount, 105
Boston Tea Party, 1773, 89
Bouvines, battle of, 1214, 29
Braintree, Mass., 88
Breay, Claire, 6
Brexit and Magna Carta, 39–40
Briouze, Matilda de, 18
Briouze, William de, 28
British Bill of Rights, 9
British Library
Magna Carta exhibition 2015, 6, 23
Magna Carta conference 2015, 6
Brougham, Henry, first Lord Brougham and Vaux, 114
Burdett, Sir Francis, 112–5
Burgh, James, 92
Burke, Edmund, 82
Caroline, Queen, trial of, 1820, 111
Carroll, Charles, 94
Carpenter, David, 44–5
Cato Street conspiracy, 111
Charles I, 36, 51, 59, 60, 61, 64, 66n, 68–71, 76
Charleston, S.C., 87
Charter of Runnymede, 22
Chartist movement and Magna Carta, 114–5
Christianson, P., 67
Coercive Acts, see Intolerable Acts
Coke, Sir Edward, 51–60, 62, 65–75, 79–80, 83–5, 90–3, 99, 100, 104, 106, 113, 114
Institutes (1628 et seq.), 53, 57, 59, 67–8
habeas corpus and Magna Carta, 55–6
common law and Magna Carta, 66–7, 69
Coke, Thomas, 114
Connecticut, 88
Continental Congress (U.S.), 89, 95
Coronation Charter, see Henry I
coronation rituals, 48
Cotton, Sir Robert, 59
Cromartie, Alan, 66
Davidson, William, 111
D’Avray, David, 45
Declaration of Independence (U.S., 1776), 26, 90, 97
Declaration of the Rights of Man (France, 1789), 32
Defoe, Daniel, 105
Downer, Silas, 93–4
Drayton, William Henry, 90
Dresden, bombing of, 11
duke of Edinburgh, Philip, 25
Dzelzainis, Martin, 75
Edward I, 34–5, 46, 58, 65, 69, 100
Edward II, 35
Edward III, 51
Elizabeth I, 62
Examiner, The, 106
Excise Crisis, 1733, 107
Falaise, 27
Federal Convention (U.S., 1787), 96–7
Federalist Papers, 97
F.I.F.A. (Fédération International de Football Association), 2–3
Five Knights Case, 1627, 55–6, 64–5
Fox, Charles James, 111
Gallipoli, commemorations of battle of, 6, 26; mentioned, 10
General Warrants, 109
George, M. Dorothy, 113–4
Georgia (U.S.A.), 80
Glorious Revolution, 1688, 82, 104–5
Gordon, William, 94
Great Reform Act, 1832, 114
Guy Fawkes Day, 8
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 87
Hamilton, Alexander, 96–7
Harley, Robert, 105
Coronation Charter of, 1100, 30
Henry III, 22, 23, 33–4, 45–8, 54, 58, 65
Henry IV, 35
Henry V, 51
Hill, Felicity, 47
historic anniversaries, 1–15
Historical Association, 6
Hobbes, Thomas, Behemoth, 60
Holocaust Memorial Day, 14
Holt, J. C., 43
Hone, William, 104
Human Rights Act, 1998, 9
Hutchinson, Thomas, 91
Iberian peninsula, 49
Intolerable Acts, 1774, 89
Iredell, James, 97
James I, 53, 57, 59, 62–3, 100
James II, 36
John (King), see King John
Johnston, James, 97
Jones, John Gale, 112
Jurors, The, sculpture at Runnymede, 3–4
Justinian I, Institutes, 57–8
Kenealy, Edward, 115
Kennedy, John F., assassination of, 15
Kidd, Colin, 103
King’s College London, 6
kingship, ideas of in the thirteenth century, 41–3
King John, 17–22, 25–31, 33, 35, 39–40, 44–5, 47, 54, 58, 61, 69, 80n, 94–5, 99–100, 101n, 114
failings of kingship, 18, 26–7
arbitrary government of, 18–19
character, 28
death, 33
King Stephen, 54
Langdon, Samuel, 94
Langton, Stephen, see archbishops of Canterbury
and ‘free-born Englishmen’, 75–6
political thought of, 70–2
views on Magna Carta, 72–7
‘Agreement of the People’ and Magna Carta, 76–7
Littleton, Thomas, 53
Locke, Huw, sculptor, 3–4
London Association, 93
London Corresponding Society, 111
Lynch, Loretta (U.S. Attorney General), 2, 25
McWilliam, Rohan, 115
Madison, James, 96
Magna Carta:
versions of, 106
1225, 22–3, 34, 41, 46, 52, 54, 58, 65, 67–8, 74, 80, 98
clauses of 1215
version mentioned in the text:
9: 116n
10: 31
11: 31
12: 17, 22
18: 22
20: 21
35: 30, 37
39: (ch. 29 in 1225 version), 3, 20, 21, 32, 36, 44, 54–5, 65, 69, 74, 81, 90, 98, 102, 107, 110, 116n
40: (ch. 29 in 1225 version), 17, 20, 32, 39, 54–5, 65, 69, 74, 81, 90, 98, 102, 110, 116n
41: 37–8
42: 37–8
48: 22
54: 21
60: 31
800th anniversary celebration of, 2–7, 9, 25
800th exhibitions of, 6
and the British empire, 38
and the Civil War (1640–60), 61–77
copies found in Faversham and Sandwich, Kent, 7
in colonial America, 80–2
composition of 1215 version, 44–5
contemporary disagreement over, 9
contemporary relevance of, 17–18, 32
distribution of in 1215, 23
earlier celebrations of, 5, 26
iconography of, 102–4
Jews and, 31
legal training, use in early modern Inns of Court, 52
liberty of the subject, 60
and loyalism, 112
and monarchical power, 30, 33, 35, 47, 64–5
origins of, 30
and political pluralism, 37
precedents for, 19, 31, 39, 58, 69, 77, 81, 104, see also ancient constitution
rule of law and due process, 7, 24, 26, 32, 35, 38, 40, 47, 55, 74, 80–1, 95
and spiritual authority, 50
United States, influence in, 36, 79–100
and U.S. Constitution, 96–7
universality of, 15, 17, 24, 31–2, 36–7, 47, 101, 116
Magna Carta Project 2012–15 (Arts and Humanities Research Council), 6, 45
Magna Carta Trust, 5
800 Committee of, x, 5
Magna Charta Association (f. 1874), Mandela, Nelson, 5
Marbury v. Madison, 99
Marshal, William, earl of Pembroke, 34
Marshall, John, 99
legislature, 90
Massachusetts, 80–1, 85, 86, 95
colonial assembly, 91
Constitution, 1780, 96
House of Representatives, 110
Liberty Bowl, 1768, 84, 110. See also Revere, Paul
Mather, Moses, 92
memory, history of, 7, 10, 14–15
Montfort, Simon de, French baron, 31
Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester, 41
National Archives, The, 6
National Portrait Gallery, 8
national commemorations, 7–8
New York, 95
colonial assembly, 91
New Hampshire, 95
Normaton, Helena, 116
North Russia Club, 11
Observance of 5th November Act, 1606 (the ‘Thanksgiving Act’), 8
Old Testament, influence on thirteenth-century bishops, 48–9
Orange Order, parades of in Northern Ireland, 13
Orr, Alan, 77
Osborne, George, 5
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 29
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 14
Paine, Thomas, 94
Pallister, Anne, 105
Pamiers, Statute of, 1212, 31
Paris, medieval schools at, 41–2
Paris, Matthew, 46
Parliament, development of, 34–5, 41
Peace Pledge Union, 11
Peking University (PKU), Beijing, Magna Carta conference 2015 at, ix–x
Penn, William, 81
colonial legislature in, 88
People’s Charter, 1836, 114–5
Petition of Right, 1628, and Magna
Philip II (Philip Augustus), king of France, 28, 33
Pine, John, 109
Pine, Robert Edge, 109
Pocock, J. G. A., 66
Portadown, N.I., 13
Public Processions (Northern Ireland)
Act, 1998, 13
Putney Debates, 1647, 76
Quinault, Roland, 8
Ralph of Coggeshall, 44
Ramsay, David, 97
Regency Crisis, 1788, 111
Rhode Island, 81
Richard II, 35
Richard III, 35
Richardson, R. J., 115
Rouen, 27
Rowlandson, Thomas, 112
Rudyerd, Sir Benjamin, 51–2, 56, 60
Runnymede, Surrey, 2–4, 9, 15, 17, 21–3, 25, 30, 33, 39, 41, 43, 44, 80, 100, 111, 114.
Russell, Conrad, 64
Russian Revolution, centenary of, 12
Salisbury Cathedral, 6
Soviet commemoration of, 11
Septennial Act, 1716, 106
Shakespeare
Henry V, 1
Sharpe, Kevin, 64
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 5
Smith, David Chan, 65–6
Somers, John, 105
Sons of Liberty, 88
Stamp Act, 1712, 109
Stamp Act Congress, 1765, 91
Stamp tax, 1765, 90–2
Statute Law Revision Act, 1863, 116
Stephen (King), see King Stephen
Stephens, J. R., 115
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, first earl of, execution, 59
suffragettes, and Magna Carta, 115–6
Sugar Act, 1764, 87–8
Sumption, Jonathan, 9
Supreme Court (U.S.), doors of, and Magna Carta, 100
Swift, Jonathan, 106
Townshend Acts, 1767, 87
traditions, invention of, 7–8
Trafalgar Day, 8
Tucker, John, 82
Tucker, Josiah, 83
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948), 32
Verax, Theodorus, 108
charter of 1606, 80
Bill of Rights, 1776, 95
Watson, James, 109
Webber, Teresa, 45
Wedgwood, depictions of Magna Carta, 108
Weiler, Björn, 48–9
Westminster Abbey (St. Katherine’s Chapel), 46
Westminster Hall, 60
Magna Carta exhibition in, 6
William I (the Conqueror), 54
William, Prince (duke of Cambridge), 2, 25
Winchester Cathedral, 47
Worcester, Sir Robert (Bob), x
Ypres, battle of (1915), 26