THE " SIGNING " OF MAGNA CARTA
Snt,—Historical Revision, No. XLVII, one of a series which appeared in History, deals with the execution of the Great Charter. The article occurs in the number for October, 1928, pp. 247-253. It came from the witty and learned pen of the late C. G. Crump.
" Vested interests are at stake ; old traditions are hard to shatter. Let us be sanguine and cultivate optimism. By the year 1950 it may be permissible for a reviewer to state firmly that any text-book which asserts that King John signed the Great Charter ought to be attached to a " second-hadd mill-stone " and dropped into the Atlantic." A footnote to 1950, however, states that " It will probably take another twenty fire years before journalists learn these things," and an example from The Times is cited in support of this statement—Yours, &c.,
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