List of illustrations

Figure

1.1   ‘The Jurors’ by Huw Lock at Runnymede, Surrey, commissioned by Surrey County Council and the National Trust to commemorate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in 2015. The twelve chairs represent the historical and ongoing struggle for justice and equal rights.

1.2   The American Bar Association Memorial to Magna Carta at Runnymede, erected in 1957.

2.1   The last part of the copy of Magna Carta 1225 in the Cerne Abbey cartulary (Cambridge University Library Ll.1.10). Photograph: David Carpenter.

6.1   John Lilburne reading from Coke’s Institutes at his trial for treason (British Library shelfmark C.37.d.51.(5.)).

7.1   Seal of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1775. Courtesy of Massachusetts Archives, Boston.

7.2   Frontispiece, “The Patriotic American Farmer”; i.e., 3rd edn. of John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

7.3   Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress held at Philadelphia, 1774. Title page of book in British Library. © British Library Board, shelf mark C.38.f.33.