The barons take London
1215 · Event
Having renounced their fealty, the rebel barons are let into London by its citizens while the loyalists are at mass — and with his capital, his mint and his exchequer in rebel hands, John must negotiate. The demands they carry descend from a draft already circulating: the 'Articles of the Barons', with sixty-three clauses.
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