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		</div><p>A man has been charged with trying to steal one of the oldest surviving copies of the Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral in England.</p>
<p>Alarms were set off at the cathedral last year when an attempt was made to smash the glass box surrounding the ancient manuscript.</p>
<p>Wiltshire Police said today that Mark Royden had been charged with attempted theft and criminal damage in connection with the incident on October 25 last year.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We&#39;ve charged a man with attempted theft and criminal damage of the Magna Carta at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Salisbury?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Salisbury</a> cathedral.<br />More here: <a href="https://t.co/HM0oYfmrPY">https://t.co/HM0oYfmrPY</a> <a href="https://t.co/xfK3qCXIQB">pic.twitter.com/xfK3qCXIQB</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Wiltshire Police (@wiltshirepolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/wiltshirepolice/status/1143188815760232449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The force said Royden, 46, from Devon, is due to appear at Salisbury Magistrates’ Court on Friday June 28.</p>
<p>The Magna Carta was not damaged and nobody was injured in the incident.</p>
<p>After the incident, the manuscript was held in storage while work was carried out to replace the outer casing but it went back on display in February.</p>
<p>Salisbury Cathedral’s copy of the text is one of four that remain in existence from the original 1215 charter.</p>
<p>England&#8217;s King John issued the Magna Carta after agreeing peace terms with a band of rebel barons there and it is now one of the world’s most celebrated legal documents.</p>
<p>It established for the first time that neither monarch nor government was above the law and set out principles of liberty which echoed through the centuries.</p>
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