4 original Magna Cartas reunited
The four surviving original copies of the Magna Carta went on display together for the first time on Monday, as Britain began 800th-anniversary celebrations for a document that forms the basis for legal systems around the world.
A total of 1,215 people, drawn from a ballot, have won the chance to see the display at the British Library, which is bringing together its two originals with those of Lincoln and Salisbury Cathedrals, until Wednesday. The four parchments, which date back to 1215, will also be on private show in Parliament on Thursday.
"No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go and send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers by the law of the land," it states in Latin. "To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice."
