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A NTIQU JTI US OF ENGLAND. °Z5
PLATE XIII.
EDWARD THE FIRST,
Is here represented seated on his throne, and answering the pope's bull,
which is presented to him by the archbishop of Canterbury, and others of the
cler^v, on the behalf of his holiness.
What the French author may have said concerning this prince cannot be
discovered, for the letters at the bottom of this drawing are entirely obliterated ;
but most likely he gave some short account, of the important and interesting scene
which he has delineated. A full account, however, is here subjoined, as taken
from Speed's Chronicle.
" But in the matter of Scotland, the king, not to seem altogether to neglect
the court of Rome, addressed thither the earle of Lincolne, and the lord Hugh
de Spencer, with manifold complaints against the Scots, and justification of his
owne proceedings : howbeit, at the pope's request, hee granted them truce from
Hollonmass to Whitsuntide.
"The justice of the English armes againste the Scots, being now againe
directly impunged by the papall letters, comprehending sundry arguments on the
behalfe of that nation, king Edward, in a parliament at Lincolne, published their
contents, and, by consent of the whole representative body of the realme, returned
a copious defence of his whole proceedings, with protestation, first, that he did not
exhibite any thing as in forme of judgment, or tryall of his cause, but for
satisfaction of his holy father-hood's conscience, and not otherwise. But whereas
the pope had required the king to stand to his decision for matter of claim, he
writes that thereunto he would make an answere, as having left that point to the
earles and peeres, of this land : who, with one minde, directly signify, that their
king was not to answere in judgment for any rites of the crowne of England before
any tribunall under heaven, and that (by sending deputies or attourneyes to such
an end) he should not make the said truth doubtfull, because it manifestly tended
to the disinherison of the said crowne, whiche they, with the helpe of God, would
resolutely, and with all their force, maintain against all men.— That the resolution
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PLATE XIII.
EDWARD THE FIRST,
Is here represented seated on his throne, and answering the pope's bull,
which is presented to him by the archbishop of Canterbury, and others of the
cler^v, on the behalf of his holiness.
What the French author may have said concerning this prince cannot be
discovered, for the letters at the bottom of this drawing are entirely obliterated ;
but most likely he gave some short account, of the important and interesting scene
which he has delineated. A full account, however, is here subjoined, as taken
from Speed's Chronicle.
" But in the matter of Scotland, the king, not to seem altogether to neglect
the court of Rome, addressed thither the earle of Lincolne, and the lord Hugh
de Spencer, with manifold complaints against the Scots, and justification of his
owne proceedings : howbeit, at the pope's request, hee granted them truce from
Hollonmass to Whitsuntide.
"The justice of the English armes againste the Scots, being now againe
directly impunged by the papall letters, comprehending sundry arguments on the
behalfe of that nation, king Edward, in a parliament at Lincolne, published their
contents, and, by consent of the whole representative body of the realme, returned
a copious defence of his whole proceedings, with protestation, first, that he did not
exhibite any thing as in forme of judgment, or tryall of his cause, but for
satisfaction of his holy father-hood's conscience, and not otherwise. But whereas
the pope had required the king to stand to his decision for matter of claim, he
writes that thereunto he would make an answere, as having left that point to the
earles and peeres, of this land : who, with one minde, directly signify, that their
king was not to answere in judgment for any rites of the crowne of England before
any tribunall under heaven, and that (by sending deputies or attourneyes to such
an end) he should not make the said truth doubtfull, because it manifestly tended
to the disinherison of the said crowne, whiche they, with the helpe of God, would
resolutely, and with all their force, maintain against all men.— That the resolution
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