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Excerpt from The King and the Bondmen
Then as time went on, wars broke out between England and France, and money was wanted to pay the cost, for war is an expensive game, and the way of raising money was to make the people pay taxes. This created murmurs and discontent and gradually the people in the towns by trade and industry grew so powerful that the barons no longer dared to molest them, and at last they obtained. The right to sit in parliament and assist in making the laws which they were called on to Obey. At times some of the barons took part with the people, as in the days of king John, when they forced that monarch to Sign what is called Magna Charta, or the Great Charter.
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