A GROUP from Trowbridge will be travelling to London on Tuesday to join the Magna Carta Baronial Army in commemorating the 1215 seizing of the capital.

The 14-strong group, including mayor Glyn Bridges, town clerk Lance Allan and town crier Trevor Heekes, will attend a reception in the Mansion House hosted by the Lord Mayor of London which will included representatives from the communities of the caputs, or headquarters, of all 25 Magna Carta enforcers.

Henry de Bohun from Trowbridge was one of the rebel barons who, on May 5, 1215, rejected King John as king.

The King retaliated by ordering his sheriffs to seize the lands and goods of the barons.

Trowbridge Mayor Glyn Bridges said: “We are immensely proud in Trowbridge that Henry de Bohun, our Magna Carta baron and enforcer, played such an important role in bringing the iconic constitutional document Magna Carta into being.”

The assembling of this Army commemorates the seizing of London by forces supporting the barons on the May 17 1215 which gave the Magna Carta barons leverage to compel King John to negotiate and force him to seal the Magna Carta.

Andy Milroy, an organiser of Trowbridge’s Magna Carta celebrations, said: “Henry de Bohun and his descendants for generation after generation risked their lands, their families and their lives to ensure that the Plantagenet kings confirmed and followed Magna Carta.

“This gathering at the Mansion House commemorates a pivotal moment in history when the seizing of London set in train the events that were to lead to Runnymede and Magna Carta.”