The history behind the design
The Freeman t-shirt takes its word from Magna Carta's 'free man' (liber homo), the person protected by the charter's best-known promise, clause 39.
In medieval England a “free man” (Latin liber homo) was a person who was not a serf bound to a lord’s land. Magna Carta, sealed by King John at Runnymede on 15 June 1215, used exactly that term in its best-known promise, Clause 39: “No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions … except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.”
Over the following centuries that protection was widened until it applied to everyone, and it became a foundation of due process and trial by jury. The FREEMAN tee is printed on the front only.