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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Primary & Secondary Sources [Was: Plantagenet Bastards]
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:03:00 -0000
References: <129.20d3071a.2b5f61cc@aol.com> <3E2E0AD2.8B3BF1E2@pacbell.net> <ntaylor-5E1D58.00085522012003@nnrp02.earthlink.net> <P7qX9.142$856.7336@eagle.america.net> <ntaylor-BB0F95.13451922012003@nnrp01.earthlink.net>


Thanks.

So that would have been "L" ---- one of four surviving "originals" of Magna
Carta 1215.

"Ci" and "Cii" are in the British Library [they were originally in the
Cottonian library], "L" is at Lincoln Cathedral and "S" is at Salisbury
Cathedral.

Deus Vult.

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like 'em myself. They're
pretty bad ---- I grieve over them long winter evenings. And I don't mind
your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a bottle, but *don't* waste your
time trying to cross-examine me." Humphrey Bogart [Philip Marlowe] to Lauren
Bacall [Vivian Sternwood] in "The Big Sleep" [1946], Howard Hawks Directed.

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"Nathaniel Taylor" <> wrote in message
news:...

| In article <P7qX9.142$>,

| "D. Spencer Hines" <> wrote:
|
| >"Nathaniel Taylor" <> wrote in message
| >news:...
| >
| >| ... So the various Magna Carta
| >| texts printed (and even translated) in the appendices to J. C. Holt's
| >| _Magna Carta_ are *primary sources*, though, to be sure, the 1215
| >| parchment that I once saw in a parking lot in New Bedford Massachusetts
| >| is more 'original'.
|
| >Which copy of Magna Carta 1215 did you see in a parking lot in New
| >Bedford?
|
| The Lincoln Cathedral copy. It was on tour of the US with the first
| fair copy of our (US) Constitution, in a specially outfitted 18-wheeler,
| back in 1989 for the Constitution's bicentennial.
|
| Nat Taylor
|
| http://home.earthlink.net/~nathanieltaylor/


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