. Pilgrimages to Saint Mary of Walsingham and Saint Thomas of Canterbury . s immediately belonging to the shrinewill be quoted in a subsequent Note. (52) The pastoral staff of Saint Thomas. Thus described in the Inventory just mentioned: Item. Baculus Sancti Thomaj de pyro, cum capitede nigro cornu. It was made of pear-wood, with a crook of black simple in the days of Becket was the episcopal crosier,which in later times was highly enriched with goldsmithswoik and jewellery, (like the crosier of William of Wyke-ham, still preserved at New College chapel.) In illus-tration of this point
. Pilgrimages to Saint Mary of Walsingham and Saint Thomas of Canterbury . s immediately belonging to the shrinewill be quoted in a subsequent Note. (52) The pastoral staff of Saint Thomas. Thus described in the Inventory just mentioned: Item. Baculus Sancti Thomaj de pyro, cum capitede nigro cornu. It was made of pear-wood, with a crook of black simple in the days of Becket was the episcopal crosier,which in later times was highly enriched with goldsmithswoik and jewellery, (like the crosier of William of Wyke-ham, still preserved at New College chapel.) In illus-tration of this point, and of the archbishops generalattire, the Seal of Archbishop Becket is here (for the firsttime) engraved. (5f3) Was there no cross ? The cross-headed staff, in distinction to the crosier,became the peculiar ensign of an archbishop. Saintedarchbishops are always represented with it, and it isgenerally placed in the hands of archbishops on theirmonuments and seals. In the Canterbury series the firstarchbishop who bears it on his seal is Robert Kilwarby,consecrated SEAL OF ARCHBISHOP BECKET. NOTES. 157 (54) Archbishop Warham. Next to lord Mountjoy, who had been the pupil ofErasmus on the continent, Warham was the earliestEnglish patron of Erasmus. When the latter first cameto England in 1309, the archbishop contributed fivepounds towards his travelling expenses ; and the nextyear Erasmus declared that the archbishop alone de-tained him in this country. In 1511 Erasmus thus wroteof Warham: W^hilst very many others treat me with markedkindness, so chiefly does that my especial Maecenas thearchbishop of Canterbury,—or rather not mine only, butthe patron of all the learned, among whom I take thelowest place, if any at all. Almighty God ! how feli-citous, how copious, how ready, is the genius of that man!what skill in conducting the most important business!how extraordinary his learning ! But then what unheard-of courtesy towards eveiy one ! what pleasantness inaddress! so t
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