Well, as I write this the morning of day three, the wind is howling creating a driving rain. Glad we’re not starting our hike for another two hours 😃.
Continuing with Salisbury, the Cathedral was, and still is, used as a place of internment with tombs scattered throughout the structure.
Her majesty the queen has made visits here recently as well.
We spent nearly two hours at the Cathedral and honestly just scratched the surface of the history of the site.
However, one of the main reasons I wanted to visit the Cathedral was to view an original draft of the Magna Carta. One of the documents which helped establish Western Civilization as we know it.
Magna Carta or “Great Charter” established many of our fundamental rights better described in this paragraph from you for human rights .org.
In 1215, after King John of England violated a number of ancient laws and customs by which England had been governed, his subjects forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which enumerates what later came to be thought of as human rights. Among them was the right of the church to be free from governmental interference, the rights of all free citizens to own and inherit property and to be protected from excessive taxes. It established the right of widows who owned property to choose not to remarry, and established principles of due process and equality before the law. It also contained provisions forbidding bribery and official misconduct.
On is not allowed to photograph the document directly for preservation purposes. But the above photo of a recreation of the document is an excellent representation. It is written in mid evil Latin so is unintelligible to most.
So with a final shot from Salisbury we move onto Stonehenge
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