List of plates

Preface

Preface to second edition

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 The Charter and its history 1

2 Government and society in the twelfth century 23

3 Privilege and liberties 50

4 Custom and law 75

5 Justice and jurisdiction 123

6 Crisis and civil war 188

7 Quasi Pax 237

8 The quality of the Great Charter 267

9 The achievement of 1215 297

10 From distraint to war 347

11 The re-issues and the beginning of the myth 378

Appendix 1 The meeting at Bury St Edmunds, 1214 406

Appendix 2 Notification of Thomas count of Perche, February 1215 412

Appendix 3 Triplex forma pacis 413

Appendix 4 The 'unknown' charter 418

Appendix 5 The Articles of the Barons 429

Appendix 6 Magna Carta, 1215 441

Appendix 7 Translations of the Charters 474

Appendix 8 The Twenty-Five barons of Magna Carta, 1215 478

Appendix 9 The date of the London treaty 481

Appendix 10 The Oxford Council, 16-23 July 1215 484

Appendix 11 Select documents illustrative of the history of Magna Carta, 1215 490

Appendix 12 Magna Carta, 1225 501

Appendix 13 Charter of the Forest, 1225 512

Appendix 14 Liberties and perpetuity 518

References 523

Index