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<h1>Magna Charta (1680)</h1>

<p>Cooke, Edward. <em>Magna Charta, made in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Third and Confirmed by K. Edward the First ... with Some Short, but Necessary Observations from the L. Chief Just. Coke's Comments upon it</em>. London: Printed by the Assignees of Richard and Edward Atkins for Thomas Simmons, 1680.</p>

<p>Little is known about the author other than his efforts as a writer to support the Whig movement to exclude James, Duke of York from the English throne. He produced this version of the <strong>Magna Carta</strong> with that movement in mind, using reference's to Sir Edward Coke's (1552–1634) <em>Second Institute</em> to interpret the law.</p>

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<p><a href="https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/context/british-colonial-antecedents/article/1048/type/native/viewcontent">Title page, Magna Charta</a></p>