CROSS PURPOSES AT RUNNYMEDE - Awesome Stories - 1 views
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Even as he agreed to meet, however, John did not intend to keep his word.
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he agreed to its terms for one purpose only: to buy time.
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he scarcely retained seven knights, was much alarmed lest the barons would attack his castles and reduce them without difficulty, as they would find no obstacle to their so doing; and he deceitfully pretended to make peace for a time with the aforesaid barons...
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