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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

We

Coke, in the Institutes, says the first king that wrote we in his grants was King John. All the kings before him wrote ego (I). This is not correct, as Richard Lion-heart adopted the royal we. (See Rymer's Foedera.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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