Identifier: storyofgreatestn06elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ple themselves. In a short timethe multitude filed through the streets into the open space in front of theTower. The trembling King went out and timidly asked what it all meant.He was told that the barons had risen against him and the citizens were wel-coming them. The terrified John ran out of the back of the Tower to theriver-side, and was rowed across that he might escape the vengeance he so wellmerited. As a result of this, a famous historical event took place on the 15th of iJune, 1215, at the meadow of Runnymede, on the banks of the Thames, Itwas a bright sunshiny day, and the air was laden with the fragrance of flowersand cooled by the soft breezes that rippled the river and dipped the heads ofthe rushes on the banks. On the shore stood a couple of tents, from one ofwhich banners were flying, while sounds of merriment floated from within,where the King made sorry attempts at jesting, while awaiting the action of thestern men in the other tent, at whose head was Stephen Langton.
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VI i:3 England—Magna Charta 1005 The parchment, still preserved in the British Museum, which was laid be-fore the King and which he did not dare refuse to sign, was the MAGNACHARTA, or Great Charter of England. It was the first agreement everentered into by an English king and all his people. It contained sixty-threearticles, most of which have become obsolete with time, but three imperishableprovisions remain: i. No free man shall be imprisoned or proceeded againstexcept by his peers or equals, or the law of the land; 2. Justice shall not besold, denied nor delayed; 3. All dues from the people to the king, unlessotherwise clearly specified, shall be laid only with the consent of the NationalCouncil. Although the last provision was dropped during the next reign, theprinciple was plainly proclaimed. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the adoption of theMagna Charta. It made the English people a united body, and cemented andprotected the interests of all classes. The e

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