2-713-408 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Armour of the Bishop of Beauvais presented to the Pope by order of Richard I', 1773. KIng Richard I of England (1157-1199) returns the armour of the Bishop de Beauvais (1158-1217) to Pope Celestine III (c1106-1198) with a message 'he had put on the armour of a solidier instead of the habit of a priest'. After Samuel Wale (1721-1786). From "A New and Complete History of England, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time", by Temple Sydney. [J. Cooke, London, 1773]