- Self - Presenter: Welshmen would die in Scotland. Scotsmen would perish in Ireland. The English would kill and be killed everywhere.
- Self - Presenter: Henry III was also a Plantagenet, and Plantagenets dreamed dangerous dreams. Expensive dreams of campaigns far abroad which no one in York or Canterbury could quite see the point of. And when Plantagenets thought they might get unwelcome advice, they stop listening. Until, that is, they were made to.
- Self - Presenter: The Welsh were doomed by English superiority to become objects of terminal quaintness. The quaint language. The quaint songs. Those amusing choirs and chants.
- Self - Presenter: "Look, you can't be completely off your head to come up with this sovereignty stuff, but actually its all news to us, chum. Since the Scottish realm on this side of the river is held tribute to no one but God. We don't have to prove a thing. It's for you to come up with the super monk with the perfect charter. Why don't you let us know when you have it?"
- Self - Presenter: Here he is. The standard issue freedom fighter of the imagination. The "give 'em hell" whiskers. The "save me Jesus" eyes. The hamstrings from Hell.
- Self - Presenter: Dunfermline Abbey is one of those places where you can almost smell tragedy in the stonework.
- Self - Presenter: In the last decades of the 13th Century the nations of Britain found their voices., loud, confident and defiant. And they were raised against England.