The two rough drawings, figured in the text, are reproduced from
f. 192d of a Manuscript Chronicle in the British Museum [_MS. Cotton,
Nero, D. ii._]. The first, opposite p. 19, represents the story of the
robbery of the treasury of the wardrobe “by a single robber,” which
this chronicle, following the Westminster version, adopts. The second,
opposite p. 20, depicts the outrage on Boniface VIII by the agents of
Philip the Fair at Anagni, in September, 1303. This picture of the
attack on the pope emphasizes the comparison made by the sympathetic
monastic writers between the scandal of Anagni and the analogous
outrage on the church by the imprisonment of the monks of Westminster.
The photographs were taken by the permission of the Principal Librarian
of the British Museum by the Artists Illustrators, Limited.
The rough plan of Westminster Abbey and the adjoining royal palace is
taken from that published in Hall’s _Antiquities of the Exchequer_,
p. 31. I am indebted to my friend Mr. Hubert Hall and to his publisher,
Mr. Elliott Stock, for permission to reproduce this.