Stephen Langton stone plaque

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Near this spot on the 20th November A.D. 1214, Cardinal Langton & The Barons swore at St Edmund's altar that they would obtain from King John the ratification of Magna Charta. Where the rude buttress totters to its fall, and ivy mantles oer the crumbling wall; where e'en the skilful eye can scarcely

trace the once high altar's lowly resting place... Let patriotic fancy muse awhile amid the ruins of this ancient pile. Six weary centuries have past away: palace and abbey moulder in decay-cold deat

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