The British nation a history / by George MWrong . oss the Channel, fell at hisfeet and told their story. In a passion Henry burst out, Will none of the cow-ards who eat my breadrid me of this turbu-lent priest ? Fourknights thought thisa warrant to kill thearchbishop, and beforethey slept on thatChristmas eve took asolemn vow to do separated, to meeta few days later nearCanterbury. On theevening of December29 their crime was con-summated, and Thomasa Becket was brutallymurdered in the northtransept of his cathe-dral church. The murder ofBecket seemed for atime disastrous to Hen-ry. His
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . oss the Channel, fell at hisfeet and told their story. In a passion Henry burst out, Will none of the cow-ards who eat my breadrid me of this turbu-lent priest ? Fourknights thought thisa warrant to kill thearchbishop, and beforethey slept on thatChristmas eve took asolemn vow to do separated, to meeta few days later nearCanterbury. On theevening of December29 their crime was con-summated, and Thomasa Becket was brutallymurdered in the northtransept of his cathe-dral church. The murder ofBecket seemed for atime disastrous to Hen-ry. His own words had caused it; but at once he sent messengers to the Pope protesting his innocence of the murder, and to be for a , „ time out of the reach of adverse action he TuG rpsnlts of Beckets hurried to England and thence on to remote murder. Ireland. The perpetrators of the murder were, it seems, never punished, owing to a doubt whetherthe Church or the state should try them. By the mur-der the Church for the time gained something: Beckets. MiKDER OF Becket. 100 THE BRITISH NATION successor swore fealty to tlie king with the modifyingwords saving my order, the use of which had been denied to the was not evenmade of observingthe customs of therealm, and Henryformally renouncedthe Constitutions ofClarendon and didpenance at Becketstomb. Xone the lesswas all real powerleft in his still appointedthe bishops, and hisnominees were secu-lar in tone and readyto do his will. Eeal victor overthe Church, Henrynext humbled the barons. The first monarch of his ageneeded a great army, and since liis English vassals whoowed him military aid would luirdly go in person to con-Henrys tinental wars in which they were not con-pressure upon cerned, lie took from them in lieu of personalthe baronage. gerviee a money payment called was apparently no resistance, and the levying ofscutage furnished the king with money to keep troojisin the field as he wished.
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