If his years of amassing cash had led to victory, John might have got away with his arbitrary methods; but when he was defeated in France, a group of barons rose up against him and captured London. As part of a peace deal brokered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the king accepted the baron’s demands, put to him in a document called Magna Carta, or “the Great Charter.”
如果连年敛财带来了胜利，约翰大概不会那么专断了；但当他在法国落败而还时，一群贵族奋起反抗并占领了伦敦。作为坎特伯雷大主教居间调停的和平协议的一部分，国王接受了贵族的要求，即一份被称为Magna Carta或曰“大宪章”的文件。