Second Parchment Copy Of Declaration Of Independence Found — In England – IOTW Report

Second Parchment Copy Of Declaration Of Independence Found — In England

Second Parchment Copy Of Declaration Of Independence Found — In England

The newly discovered document — which Harvard researchers have dated to the 1780s — was found in the town of Chichester archives, and is believed to have originally belonged to Duke of Richmond, who was known as the “Radical Duke.”

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  1. They were saving it, knowing Obama was wiping his arse with our copy. The English can be pretty good with that sort of thing–the Titulus Regius, an act of parliament by which Richard Plantagenet became king, was ordered by Henry VII (who overthrew him) to be destroyed, along with the order’s destruction.

    That damned Tudor very nearly got away with it as well, because only one copy was ever found, discovered 100 years later transcribed into the Croyland Chronicle.

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