If this is not a message from heavenly bodies I’m not sure what is!!
Let’s go with 29
(29) No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his free tenement or of his liberties or free customs, or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go against such a man or send against him save by lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. To no-one will we sell or deny of delay right or justice.
Researchers have confirmed that what was believed to have been a copy of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is actually an original from 1300.
The authentication by Magna Carta experts from King’s College London and the University of East Anglia means the document is one of only seven surviving from King Edward I’s 1300 issue of Magna Carta.
The Harvard Law School Library bought the document known as ‘HLS MS 172’ in 1946 for $27.50. The auction catalogue described the manuscript as a “copy … made in 1327 … somewhat rubbed and damp-stained.” It had been purchased a month earlier by London bookdealers Sweet & Maxwell via Sotheby’s from a Royal Air Force war hero for £42.
Professor David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London, was studying copies of Magna Carta when he saw the digitized version of HLS MS 172 on the Harvard Law School Library website and realized it might be an original and not an unofficial copy. He collaborated with Professor Nicholas Vincent, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, to investigate its provenance.
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