The Magna Charta

Chapters

• 1:1 Prologue: The Magic Island; Living in the Twelfth Century
• 1:2 Castles and Cathedrals
• 2:1 The Laughable Adventure of the Irishmen's Whiskers
• 2:2 How King Richard Was Crowned and Went Upon the Third Crusade
• 2:3 Of How John Tarried in England and of Richard's Return
• 2:4 The Treasure of Chalus
• 3:1 Of How John Was Made King
• 3:2 A Great Lady
• 3:3 The Sheriff of Nottingham and the Men in Lincoln Green
• 3:4 Of How King John Lost His Lands Across the Water
• 3:5 A Call to Arms
• 3:6 How the King's Purpose Was Prevented
• 3:7 Of How Langton Was Made Archbishop and How John Forbade Him the Kingdom
• 3:8 The Hands of Rage and Cruelty
• 3:9 The Great Assembly at Barham Down
• 3:10 Of How King John Surrendered His Kingdom
• 3:11 Of How the King of France Was Greatly Discomfited
• 3:12 Of How the King Greatly Humbled Himself
• 3:13 How Stephen Langton Found King Henry's Charter
• 3:14 Of How Philip Smote His Enemies & King John's Return to England
• 3:15 Of How King John Denied His Barons
• 3:16 How John Deceitfully Gave Consent to the Charter
• 3:17 Runnymede, June 15, 1215
• 3:18 How King John Hid Himself and Laid Plots Against the Barons
• 3:19 The Siege of Rochester
• 3:20 Of How the Pope Rebuked the King's Enemies
• 3:21 Louis Invades England
• 3:22 How the Earth and the Sea Overtook the King
• 3:23 How Stephen Langton Waited in Rome
• 3:24 Hubert de Burgh's Great Victory
• 3:25 The Treaty of Lambeth
• 4:1 How Charters Came to America
• 4:2 The Mayflower Compact
• 4:3 The American Colonists Wrote a Charter
• 4:4 The Times That Try Men's Souls
• 4:5 In Order to Form a More Perfect Union
• 4:6 This Country Belongs to the People
• 4:7 Women Are Citizens
• 4:8 A New Magna Charta for the American Republics
• 4:9 The Covenant of the League of Nations
• 4:10 The Four Essential Freedoms
• 4:11 The Atlantic Charter
• 4:12 Declaration by the United Nations
• 4:13 The United Nations Charter