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Simon Jenkins

A Short History of England

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    was to prove brilliant at arms
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    He was to prove brilliant at arms
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    she arrived as Guinevere in a dress of silk and silver, garnished with 600 rubies and 1,800 pearls, ‘attended by minstrels, huntsmen and grooms’.
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    Edward revived his father’s campaign to bring the Scots to heel.
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    she, like many queens of weak English kings, was to be a force in her own right.
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    Balliol was ritually humiliated, stripped of his crown, sceptre and orb, and taken to England as a prisoner.
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    Nor were the barons alone in experiencing Edward’s muscle.
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    Monasteries were commanded to send swans, peacocks, cranes, pike, eel and salmon.
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    When John’s remaining courtiers caught up with him, they cried at the sight of the pathetic child, ‘this tiny spark of minute beauty, the sole hope of the torn kingdom’.
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    Clause 39 declared habeas corpus, that ‘no free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or deprived or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined … except by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land’.
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