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marsh. It was his descendant — the third who bore the 

 title — who, in the 29th of Edward I, signed, with other 

 barons, the meinorable letter to Pope Boniface VIII, in 

 answer to the bull of that Pope, which declared the 

 sovereignty of Scotland to depend upon the see of Rome, 

 and forbad Edward to make any pretensions to it; re- 

 quiring the English sovereign to send ambassadors to Rome, 

 there to receive sentence as to his claims. To this assump- 

 tion of the Pontiff, the barons of England replied with 

 much dignity, unanimously declaring that the Bishop of 

 Rome had no right over the kingdom of Scotland, or to 

 interfere in any temporal concern of the Crown of Eng- 

 land, and that they would never sufFer the King of 

 England (was he even himself inclined thereto) to appear 

 judicially, in any case whatever, before Pope Boniface or 

 his successors. 



Another Lord Lovel, of Titchmarsh (Francis, the ninth 

 baron) and first Viscount Lovel, was a great favourite of 

 King Richard III, and was appointed Chief Butler, and 

 Lord High Chamberlain. It was of this Lord Lovel that 

 those verses were written by the poet Collingbourne, in 

 which he inveighs against Catesby, Sir Thomas Ratcliffe, 

 and this Lord Lovel, in the following terms : — 



" The cat, the rat, and Lovell our dog 

 Doe rule all England under the hog ;* 

 The crook-back'd boar the way hath found 

 To root out our roses from the ground; 

 Both flower and bud will he confound, 

 Till King of Beasts the swine be crown'd, 

 And then the dog, the cat, the rat, 

 Shall in his trougli feed, and be fat." 



The poet lost his head for these verses. This Lord 



* The hog was King Eichard, the supporters of whose coat of arms were 

 two hog-pigs. 



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