Runnymede
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The meadow between Staines and Windsor chosen as the site of the meeting between King John and the barons on 15 June 1215.
” The barons, immenso fluctuantes gaudio, fixed as the time of meeting, the last day of the extended truce, Monday, 15th June, at a certain meadow between Staines and Windsor, known as Runnymede.
On each of these nine days (with the possible exception of the 16th and 17th) he visited Runnymede to confer with the barons.
Sir William Blackstone shows how carefully historians have sought for some one specific feature or event, occurring in these years, of such moment as by itself to account for the rebellion crowned with success at Runnymede.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Location where King John sealed Magna Charta in 1215.
He sealed Magna Charta at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, and before July 15 he had been over the whole of the south of England and again northwards as far as Oxford.
The Rights of War and Peace
Meadow between Windsor and Staines where the Magna Carta was signed.
The original charter was signed at a place called Runny-mede (the Council Meadow) a spot between Windsor and Staines, on the 15th of June, 1215, about a year before the death of John.