The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 9 (February 25, 1927)
A.D. 1215, Magna Charta
A.D. 1215, Magna Charta.
English royalty soon weakened itself yet more by ambitious strivings to maintain and extend a wide dominion over-seas, in Normandy and Aquitaine; and was helpless to resist when barons and commons came together to demand the signing and sealing of the great charter of Englishmen's rights.