Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury: A BiographyJ. Murray, 1859 - 360 pages |
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... things in which I cannot agree ) for a forcible argument against the theory which represents Becket as a champion of the Saxon race . November 2 , 1859 . ། CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . CHAPTER II . EARLY vi PREFACE .
... things in which I cannot agree ) for a forcible argument against the theory which represents Becket as a champion of the Saxon race . November 2 , 1859 . ། CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . CHAPTER II . EARLY vi PREFACE .
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... represented as wishing to get the arch- bishopric for himself . But this imputation he very strongly denies in a letter addressed to Becket at a later time . If , he argues , he had sought the office , the most important person to be ...
... represented as wishing to get the arch- bishopric for himself . But this imputation he very strongly denies in a letter addressed to Becket at a later time . If , he argues , he had sought the office , the most important person to be ...
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... represents him as drinking nothing but fennel water , tells us that he put the wine - cup to his lips before it was passed round . The dishes served up to him were of the most delicate kind , and his abstinence , in order that it might ...
... represents him as drinking nothing but fennel water , tells us that he put the wine - cup to his lips before it was passed round . The dishes served up to him were of the most delicate kind , and his abstinence , in order that it might ...
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... represents him as keeping the volentez . " - Garnier , 55 * . The precise time of this is uncertain , but it was very soon after the consecration ( see Rog . Wendover , ii . 293 ; Foss , i . 202 ; Pauli , 33 ) ; although Buss infers ...
... represents him as keeping the volentez . " - Garnier , 55 * . The precise time of this is uncertain , but it was very soon after the consecration ( see Rog . Wendover , ii . 293 ; Foss , i . 202 ; Pauli , 33 ) ; although Buss infers ...
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... represents Henry's behaviour as extremely cordial ; another speaks of it as showing , by its coolness , that the days of Becket's favour were over ; while a third tells us that the King concealed his real feelings towards him under a ...
... represents Henry's behaviour as extremely cordial ; another speaks of it as showing , by its coolness , that the days of Becket's favour were over ; while a third tells us that the King concealed his real feelings towards him under a ...
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Page 189 - God, who feeds the fowls of the air and clothes the lilies of the field, would provide for him and the companions of his exile.
Page 96 - Concerning appeals, if they should occur, they ought to proceed from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop. And if the archbishop should fail to...
Page 87 - Erat, ut memini, genus hominum qui in ecclesia Dei archidiaconorum censentur nomine, quibus vestra discretio omnem salutis viam querebatur esse prseclusam.
Page 341 - Lastly, on our requesting that his holiness would send your lordship a summons to appear before him, he answered with much apparent distress, ' God forbid ! rather may I end my days than see him leave England on such terms, and bereave his church at such a crisis.
Page 254 - Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come." In truth his mind was filled with forebodings of evil. His official conductor to England had been John of Oxford, Dean of Salisbury, one of his principal opponents, and at Canterbury some officials of the king demanded in his name the absolution of the suspended and excommunicated bishops.
Page 279 - Strike! strike !" cried Fitzurse to his companions, and with the point of his sword he dashed off the Achbishop's cap. Tracy then raised his sword, and Grim, wrapping his arm in a cloak, lifted it up to ward off the stroke ; but the weapon almost severed the monk's arm, and descending on the Archbishop's head, cut off the tonsured part of his crown, which remained hanging only by the skin to the scalp.
Page 279 - Benedict within the chapel. It is a proof of the confusion of the scene, that Grim, the receiver of the blow, as well as most of the narrators, believed it to have been dealt by Fitzurse, while Tracy, who is known to have been the man from his subsequent boast, believed that the monk whom he had wounded was John of Salisbury.
Page i - TEMPTATION. i6mo. 2s. 6d. Boultbee.— A COMMENTARY ON THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. By the Rev. TP BOULTBEE, formerly Principal of the London College of Divinity, St. John's Hall, Highbury. Crown 8vo. 6s. IN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE. Bright.— Works by WILLIAM BRIGHT, DD, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. THE ROMAN SEE IN THE EARLY CHURCH : And other Studies in Church History. Crown 8vo.
Page 88 - Henry, provoked by their appearance of unanimity, asked them one by one whether they would obey the customs of his ancestors? The Archbishop replied that they would, " saving their order," and the bishops severally made the same declaration, with the single exception of Hilary of Chichester, who, alarmed by the King's evident anger, thought to escape the difficulty by substituting the words bond, fide for salvo ordine. This change, however, instead of appeasing Henry, added to his exasperation. He...
Page 154 - It was forbidden to mention the Primate in the public prayers. The sheriffs were charged to arrest and imprison all persons who should appeal to the Pope ; and any one who should be caught in bringing letters from the Pope or the Archbishop was either to be hanged, or to be put into a crazy boat and turned adrift to the mercy of the waves.