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charter was given under his " own hand in the meadow called Kuuingsmede , or Rimemede , betwixt Stanes and Windsore , " ( p . 136 ) ; and then he gives an account of John's death somewhat differing from Grafton . The King had an ague , augmented " with his immoderate feeding on raw peaches , and drinking

new cider . " " He departed this life the night before the 19 th day of October , 1216 , ' ' ( p . 19-1 , vol . 8 ) . Speed ' s History of Great Britain , of 1611 , mentions that John was constrained to comply with Magna Charta and Charta Forests , at Runingmead ( p . 503 ) . Stow Annalesdated 161-1 quotes Matthew Paris .

, , " The barons called themselves the army of God , whereby such a fear came on the King that he dursfc not peep out of Windsor Castle , At length he appointed to meet with the barons in a meadow betwixt Stanes nnd Windsor , which appointment he observed , and there granted the liberties without any

difficulty , the charter whereof is dated : Given under our hand in Runningmede , betwixt Stanes and Windsor , the 16 th June , the 17 th of our reign , unto which all the whole realm was sworn " ( p . 172 ) . In the same page , Stow says this year "Fishes of unwonted shape were taken in England , for they were armed with helmets and shields . In outward shape they resembled , and were like unto , armed knights , saving that they were far greater in proportion . ''

Baker ' s Chronicle of the Kings of England , a more modern work , 1730 , A . D ., informs us that King John promised to grant the Lords their demands ; and so , in a meadow between Windsor and Stanes , called Runningmead , he freely consented to confirm their former liberties , and was content some grave personages should be chosen to see it performed . But the

next day , when it should be done , he gets him gone to Southampton " ( p . 71 ) . John then appealed to the Pope , who issued a decree that the grant to the Lords should he void ( it was not signed ) . The Lords did not care a rush for the Pope , who , being so informed , excommunicated them . John thrashes the barons , and within half a year had gotten all their castles as far as the borders of

Scotland-To decide from these historians that John signed Magna Charta , would be taxing too much the credulity of the reader ; therefore to the document . The oldest known copy of the statutes of England is a duodecimo work printed in London by Penson , anno 1508 . It commences with

Magna Charta , " Edwardus dei gratia , " and ends "facto anno nono Henricii tertii . " Then follows the Charter of Forests—not a word about John . Statutes of England , entitled , " Magna Carta in F . " ( presumed to mean French ) , " whereuntois added more statutes than ever was printed in any one hook before this timeAnno Domini 1539 . Magna carta

, edita anno nono Henriei , 3 et confirmata , ann . 28 , Ed- 1 . " Printed by Robert Redman . Statutes of England . " The great charta , called in Latin Magna Carta , with divers old statutes . " "The great charta made in the Oth year of King Henry the Thirdand confirmed bKing Edward the Firstin

, y , the 28 th year of his reign . Translated out of the Latin and French into English . This is an octavo , hearing date 1542 , and was printed by Elizabeth , widow of Robert Redman .

A quarto volume is " a collection of all the statutes from the beginning of Magna Charta unto the present year of our Lord God 1579 , newly translated into English . " Magna Charta is indexed as being made by Henry the Third , and it thus begins— " We have granted to God , and by this our present charta have confirmed for us and our heirs for evermore that the

Church of England shall be free , and shall have all her w-hole rights and liberties inviolable . " Mag . ch ., cap . 1 . There are four duodecimos , about 25 octavos , then come quartos , followed by numerous folios , of the statutes of England ; but John has nothing to do with them .

Is Fabian , who published his chronicle in . lo 59 , or is Holenshed of 1-577 , or Speed of 1611 , or Stow of 1614 , or Baker of 1730 , are they , or is any one of them to be believed in preference to the Charta itself , the publication of which took

place 50 years before any one of their chronicles were printed . Yet to imagine that these historians had no foundation for what they wrote would be accusing them all of deliberate falsehood . The question to be answered is , was their Magna

Charta our Magna Charta , or did their Charta apply to the heavens ? Our terrestrial Magna Charta has certainly no Masonic celestial interpretation , it being mere record of rules or laws applicable to human affairs . The esoteric version of

the celestial Charta is this , the barons including dukes * oblige the Sun King John of 106 to confirm Magna Charta . This confirming implies a . pre-existing compact and consequently refers to the lesser Charta of the forest opposite , where

Pan dwelt , and where Nimrod and Diana annually went hunting the deer in the Royal domains on Easter Moou-day at 281 , and there in Bethshemesh were the planets in conjunction at sunrise in 1186 there at 281 in the white horse Sagittarius by law

is the smaller Charta , with a pen , and a cross for signature , and a royal seal , but no John . The celestial tiler Mercury is in Bayer and others pictured with a post-man ' s bag , into this bag he puts the document and carries it to 106 and there

is John , but where is the pen to come from ? In those times they had reed pens wherewithal to write . Look ab Britannia ( Virgo ) and in her right hand see how lady-like she holds the identical reed pen required which by law reaches 111 , and then

arises the difficulty , for the pen is at 111 , and John and the fingers of his right hand are at 106 . The dukes and barons representing the whole realm calling themselves " the army of God , " at