Breif History of Magna Carta - Study Notes

The first champion of popular right in England was the sainted Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, himself, however of Norman lineage, who led the first combination against the Plantagenet tyranny, and who in consequence was basely assassinated by the contrivance of the monarch,. Henry II (A.D.1170). He has been characterized as an ambitious churchman, solicitous only to advance his