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British Library treasures in full: Magna Carta - English ...

widows and daughters of barons might also be sold in marriage. With their own tenants, the barons could deal similarly. The scope for extortion and abuse in this system, if it were not benevolently applied, was obviously great and had been the subject of complaint long before King John came to the throne. Abuses were, moreover, aggravated by

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