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Link The Bill of Rights 1689

This is a photo and transcript of the Bill of Rights of 1689. The bill formally established the supremacy of parliament after king James II had...

Seventeenth century, Glorious Revolution, Parliamentary history, legal history, History view
Link The Magna Carta 1215

A copy of the Magna Carta of 1215 which includes a photo of the original and a full transcript of the document which was signed under duress by...

Thirteenth century, Legal system, legal history, English history, Middle ages, History view
Document Wiltshire witchcraft cases mentioned by John Aubrey

Extracts from W. Notestein, A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 (Baltimore, 1911) and Indictments for witchcraft on the...

legal history, Witchcraft, Wiltshire, Crime and Punishment view
Document ‘For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.’ The case of The Claimant, The Medals and The Poem. An article in five fits, Francesca Kettle

This essay explores two artefacts pertaining to the most infamous case of imposture in British legal history. The Tichborne Case was the kind of...

Lewis Carroll, The Tichborne Case, 19th century, legal history view
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