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The poisoning of King John I at Swineshead Abbey in Lincolnshire in 1216. Line engraving by Smith.

By permission of the ... Trustees of the Cottonian Library : this plate being a correct copy of King John's Great Charter taken from an original now remaining in the Cottonian Library, is to them most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful, and most obedient, humble servant, J. Pine.

Kynge Johan : a play in two parts / edited by J. Payne Collier from the MS. of the author in the library of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.

Rotuli litterarum clausarum in Turri Londinensi asservati / Accurante Thoma Duffus Hardy. Printed by command of His Majesty King William IV. under the direction of the Commissioners on the Public Records of the kingdom.

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John, King of England, 1167-1216

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Rotuli litterarum clausarum in Turri Londinensi asservati / Accurante Thoma Duffus Hardy. Printed by command of His Majesty King William IV. under the direction of the Commissioners on the Public Records of the kingdom.