Note 1095 — APPENDIX. DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO, OR ILLUSTRATIVE OF JOHN’S MAGNA CARTA.

The text is founded on that of the Statutes of the Realm, I. 3. Cf. Bémont, Chartes, 8–10, who discusses the various editions. Mr. R. Lane Poole has noted the variants of an original of the Charter preserved in the muniment room of Salisbury Cathedral; see Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections, I. 384-5 (Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1901). Two of these variants have been here adopted (a) “regem Anglie” for “regem Anglorum” and (b) “postmodum” added after “pontifice.”