Magna Carta

‘…The wise and attentive precautions adopted for his safety touched

Richard's feelings, and removed any slight grudge which he might retain

on account of the deception the Outlaw Captain had practised upon him.

He once more extended his hand to Robin Hood, assured him of his full

pardon and future favour, as well as his firm resolution to restrain the

tyrannical exercise of the forest rights and other oppressive laws, by

which so many English yeomen were driven into a state of rebellion. But

Richard's good intentions towards the bold Outlaw were frustrated by the

King's untimely death; and the Charter of the Forest was extorted

from the unwilling hands of King John when he succeeded to his heroic

brother…’

King John, or John Lackland, takes part in Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”, from which the passage above is taken.  John is remembered for putting his seal to the Magna Carta, on June 15, 1215.