Strutt, Joseph; Planché, James R. [Bearb.]: The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England: containing the representations of all the English monarchs, from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth (London, 1842)

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of these worthy pillars thus in case of their countries, crowne, and dignities, may
be imitated in their following- posterities, and celebrated in our everlasting remem-
brances, we (says my author) hold it here fit to record their names, subscribed
in their answres unto pope Boniface, dated at Lincolne, in the yeare of our
Redemption 1301, and 29 of king Edward the Firste."

After follows the list of 100 peers of the realm, who subscribed their names to
the support of the authority of their prince.—Speed then goes on,

" Pope Boniface thus seeing the resolutions of these lords, and having enough
to doe againste the French, proceeded no further in these businesses, but let fall
his action, and left the Scots to defend themselves as they could."

This is the last illumination in the French MS. so often quoted, and it is
coloured like the former, which is taken from the same book.