The Chronicles being thus under suspicion, we must go for our main knowledge of the story to record sources, many of which are fortunately accessible in print. Palgrave’s _Kalendars and Inventories of the Exchequer_, I. 251–99 (Record Commission, 1836), publishes the writs appointing the two commissions of enquiry and the verdicts of the juries empanelled by them. The writs are also in Rymer’s _Fœdera_, I. 956, 959 (Record Commission). The confession of Richard Pudlicott is printed in an English translation in H. Hall’s _Antiquities of the Exchequer_, pp. 25–8, and also in L. O. Pike’s _History of Crime in England_, Vol. I. The French original can be read in _Exchequer Accounts, K. R._, 332/8. Cole’s _Records_ (Record Commission, 1844) prints the indenture in which Droxford, the Keeper of the Wardrobe, specifies the jewels lost and recovered. Some entries in the _Calendar of Patent Rolls_ and the _Calendar of Close Rolls_ usefully supplement the continuous records. There are several fairly full modern accounts, the majority of which are not quite satisfactory. That in Dean Stanley’s _Memorials of Westminster Abbey_ is more eloquent than critical. H. Harrod’s article in _Archæologia_, LXIV. 375, “on the crypt of the chapter house at Westminster,” is valuable for its clear identification of the crypt under the chapter house with the scene of the robbery. Equally useful is J. Burtt’s important paper “On some discoveries in connexion with the ancient treasury of Westminster,” published in G. G. Scott’s _Gleanings from Westminster Abbey_, pp. 18–33. The two fullest modern accounts are in L. O. Pike’s _History of Crime in England_, I. 199–203 and 466–7, and Hubert Hall’s _Antiquities of the Exchequer_, pp. 18–33. The latter is perhaps the better because, though telling the story in a book dealing with the exchequer, it recognises that the treasury robbed was the treasury of the wardrobe. There are, however, materials for a more detailed critical narrative than has hitherto been attempted. II. Note on the Illustrations. 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.