41. Geoffrey Chaucer's best known work is the Canterbury Tales which describes a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury to visitTomas Becket’s tomb.
杰佛利喬叟的名著《坎特伯雷故事集》描述了一群朝圣者到坎特伯雷參觀托馬斯貝克特墳墓的旅行。

42. The baron's charter, or Magna Carta, as it came to be known was presented by a delegation of their class to the king and his advisers in the summer of 1215.
1215年夏天，貴族代表團把他們的憲章——后以大憲章聞名——遞交給國王和他的顧問團們。

43. A committee of 24 barons plus the Mayor of London was chosen to help the king carry out the Charter, with the right of declaring war on him should he break its provisions.
由24名貴族和倫敦市市長組成的委員會幫助國王執行大憲章，若國王違反規定，他們有權對國王宣戰。

44. Magna Carta was a statement of feudal and legal relationship between the crown and the barons, a guarantee of the freedom of the church and a limitation of the power of the king.
大憲章陳述的是國王與貴族間的封建和法律關系，保證了教會自由和限制了王權。

45. While the king Henry Ⅲ and Prince Edward were keep in prison, Simon de Montfort summoned in 1265 the great council to meet at Westminster which developed later into the Lords and the Commons known as a parliament.
1265年當亨利三世國王和愛德華王子被關入監獄，西蒙德孟福爾在威斯敏斯特召集大議會，大議會發展到后來演變為議會，分為上議院和下議院。