On Friday, March 9, 2018 at 8:01:40 AM UTC-5, wrote:


XXIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.[228]

You must be a very happy individual.

In 1215:

Nobles and the Church held 75% of the land in England, and were less than 1% of the population.

As follows:

Class Holdings % of Population

Nobles & Church 75% 0.1%
Freemen 19% 10%
Villiens 1% 41%
Bordars 5% 32% (House-Villiens more-or-less)
Slaves 0% 7%

Now, let's see some more blather about how the Magna Carta was such a wonderful document when it applied to less than 11% of the population. Seminal, perhaps. But as written and as applied at the time, it kept the villiens in their place and the landowners in theirs.

Taking things out of context and in what appears to be complete ignorance of historical conditions and facts generally not a good practice.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA