Matthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child mb-code GNHL483 Plate 23 from Fossilium Metalla

Plate 23 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

wearing the medal of Knight Commander

a 19th-century copy from Speed's Map of England

Punch took this to mean that he would be writing his memoirs

Matthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child mb-code GNHL483 Plate 23 from Fossilium MetallaMatthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child, 13th century, (1892). From Paris' own drawing. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume I, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1892.