Nowhere is fact and fiction so entwined than in the stories of King John, Robin Hood, and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Yet out of this legendary time came the Magna Carta, a foundation stone of modern democracy.
In 1685, a rebel army landed at the pretty Dorset port of Lyme Regis and swept up through Somerset, pausing at Taunton to declare its leader, Duke of Monmouth, the rightful king.