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CHAPTER IX.
HENRY THE SECOND, RICHARD THE FIRST, AND JOHN.—1154 TO 1216.
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JOHN SIGNING THE MAGNA CHARTA.
1. As soon as Henry the Second came to the throne, he began to set things to rights again. He had all the new castles pulled down, and made the bad men who had lived in them, leave the country; then he set people to work to