Chetham's Library

One of these was magnanimous enough to write two or three years afterwards a sort of funeral eulogy of Edward.

But the other, Robert of Reading, who in my opinion kept the official chronicle of the Abbey from 1302 to 1326, set forth the Westminster point of view very effectively in the well-known version of the chronicle called Flores Historiarum, the original manuscript of which is now in the Chetham Library.

In this is given what may be regarded as the official account of Richard's burglary.

The robbery of the King of England was a crime only comparable to the robbery of the treasurer of Boniface VIII six months later at Anagni.