The Acrostic Paradise Lost by John Milton and Terrance Lindall

Above: The original death warrant of King Charles I and the wax seals of the 59 commissioners, 1649
Location: British Parliament
The above is a copy of the Warrant sent o the Sheriff (by the Lords) for the execution of King Charles.
Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta
is a charter darfted by the Archbishop of canterbury and agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near
Windsor, on 15 June 1215. It declared the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal
imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown to be implemented through
a council of 25 barons. The charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.
At the end of the war in 1217, it formed part of the peace treaty agreed at Lambeth, where the document acquired
the name Magna Carta.
At the end of the 16th century there was renewed interest in Magna Carta. Some at the time believed that this was
derived from an ancient English constitution, going back to the days of the Anglo-Saxons, that protected individual
English freedoms.
Jurist Sir Edward Coke used Magna Carta, arguing against the divine right of kings propounded by the Stuart
monarchs.
Both James I and his son Charles I attempted to suppress the discussion of Magna Carta. The issue was settled by
by the English Civil War of the 1640s and the execution of Charles.
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