On this date we remember the 1217 Charter of the Forest, when King Henry III affirmed rights allowing free people to access and use England’s forests. It was an important early expansion of communal land rights alongside the Magna Carta.
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By affirming that free people could access and use England’s forests, the Charter concretely extended communal land rights to free people. That demonstrated outcome matters because it was an early legal expansion of communal land rights alongside the Magna Carta.
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How widely were the Charter’s rights to access and use forests implemented and enforced across England after 1217?
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