It was preceded by the 1100 Charter of Liberties in which King Henry I voluntarily stated that his own powers were under the law.
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A year later, the king granted a charter of liberties for the abbey and endowed it with properties, including the manors of Wolverhampton and Tettenhall.
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The Charter of Liberties was a precedent for Magna Carta ( Great Charter ) of 1215, at the end of the reign of John of England.
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In 2014, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk celebrated the 800th anniversary of the barons'Charter of Liberties, said to have been secretly agreed there in November 1214.
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Henry began his reign with the Charter of Liberties, sending a strong message : he was returning to his father s ways, which were viewed with great nostalgia.
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They believed that this was permitted by an ancient charter of liberties of King Offa, that had been since been denied by the abbot of St Albans Abbey.
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In 1773, he was presented with a charter of liberty from the Academy, granting him and his progeny freedom from the poll-tax, conscription, enserfment and other possible obligations.
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In the 1220s, Halesowen had a market and fair and, by 1270, it had been granted a charter of liberties by its lord, the Premonstratensian Abbey of Halesowen.
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It begins with Henry's " Charter of Liberties ", which he issued after his coronation, and this is the only actual legal document reproduced in the " Leges ".
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The "'Charter of Liberties "', also called the "'Coronation Charter "', was a written proclamation by Henry I of England, issued upon his accession to the throne in 1100.
