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Magna Carta was built in the Netherlands in 1936. She was converted from a sand carrying cargo vessel to a hotel barge in 2001-2002 after 65 years carrying cargo for the same family. The barge conversion was designed and managed by Dominic Read, one of the new owners.
“Neither we nor our officials will seize any land or rent in payment of a debt, so long as the debtor has movable goods sufficient to discharge the debt.”
“For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.”
“No sheriff, royal official, or other person shall take horses or carts for transport from any free man, without his consent.”
“In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it.”
“To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.”
“It is accordingly our wish and command that the English Church shall be free, and that men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions, well and peaceably in their fulness and entirety for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all things and all places for ever.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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