pretty interesting the similarities in our countries  various declarations;  Many copies of Magna Carta were made each time it was issued, so that all the participants could have one. With the 1215 edition, one copy went to the Royal Archives, one to the Cinque Ports (ports with certain privileges) and one for the (then 40) counties. Four contemporaneous copies or “exemplifications” still remain – two are in the British Library and both Salisbury Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral own a copy.