Henry II, King of England. Henry Fitzempress, Henry Curtmantle, 1133-1189. Bust portrait with crown and sceptre, behind a curtain. From the effigy on his monument at Fontevraud in Anjou. Vignette showing the murder of Thomas Becket by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral. Copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by George Vertue from his Heads of the Kings of England, proper for Mr Rapin’s History, translated by N. Tindal, printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, London, 1736.

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