The Magna Charta Barons And Their American Descendants

A successor to the 1898 work "The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants," the pedigrees herein are of the members of the Order of Runnemede in 1915--in effect, a second "yearbook" of the Order. Since pedigrees were dropped and added as the membership of the Order changed, this work stands by itself and does not supersede the 1898 volume. Nearly 200 pages are devoted to pedigrees of the members, which are grouped under the following names: Abbott, Allyn, Aston, Bernard, Bevan, Booth, Brooke, Bruen, Bulkeley, Byrd, Cadwalader, Calvert, Carter, Chauncey, Chichester, Claiborne, Claypool, Clayton, Daubeney, Digges, Drake, Dundas, Evans, Fauntleroy, Fenwick, Fleete, Foulke, Gordon, Gorsuch, Haynes, Henry, Humfrey, Irvine, Lambert, Lawrence, Leete, Lindsay, Lloyd, Lyman, Lynde, MacGehee, McIntosh, Montgomery, Norton, O'Carroll, Owen, Reade, Rose, Saltonstall, Scott, Sherman, Skipwith, Spotswood, Stewart, Sullivan, Throckmorton, Warren, Washington, West, Wetherill, Whiting, Wilkinson, Williams, Willis, Willoughby, Winthrop, Witherspoon, Woodhull, and Wyatt.

As the author emphasizes at the beginning of this work, "this is a book of the genealogies of the most prominent of the English Barons who procured the great Charter of Liberty from King John rather than an essay on the Magna Charta itself, ... "

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Excerpt from The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants: Together With the Pedigrees of the Founders of the Order of Runnemede Deduced From the Sureties for the Enforcement of the Statutes of the Magna Charta of King John The ascent of John to the throne on Ascension Day, in 1199, was apparently pleasing to the majority of the Eng lish Barons and the people generally, as his succession sprang out Of a national choice as well as regal inheritance, but it was claimed he was handicapped from the start by a few discontented ecclesiastics, who were sufficiently influen tial to make his reign an exceedingly troublesome one to the end. In his coronation oath John swore that, bad laws being destroyed, he would substitute good ones, and exer cise true justice in the kingdom of England. Therefore, early in his troublous reign, the propriety Of a grant Of fixed laws was the question of the day, and was championed by Robert fitz-walter, Saher de Quincey, and Eustace de Vesci, and these, on the part of the other Barons, kept at the king, persistently requesting him to give it. Therefore, to conciliate them, and to gain, if possible, a cessation, or at least a respite, from their importunities, John, like his predecessors, promised a restoration of those liberties the Barons, and very probably the people, though they had no voice in the matter, so earnestly desired, - a confirmation Of the charter Of rights and liberties granted by his great grandfather, Henry I., and the renewal or adoption Of the anglo-saxon code. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.