. w whom pilgrimage really sanctifies, received repeated confirmation from therevelations of Chaucer and Piers Plowman and many an old chronicler; and suchan observer as Erasmus was more disgusted than edified by a visit to Becketstomb. The beauty of the Cathedral touched him much, he marked the majestywith which the church rises into the sky, so as to strike awe even at a distantapproach; the vast towers, saluting from afar the advancing traveler; the sound ofthe bells, sounding far and wide through the surrounding country but, as
. w whom pilgrimage really sanctifies, received repeated confirmation from therevelations of Chaucer and Piers Plowman and many an old chronicler; and suchan observer as Erasmus was more disgusted than edified by a visit to Becketstomb. The beauty of the Cathedral touched him much, he marked the majestywith which the church rises into the sky, so as to strike awe even at a distantapproach; the vast towers, saluting from afar the advancing traveler; the sound ofthe bells, sounding far and wide through the surrounding country but, as hebeheld the effects of blind and debasing superstition upon the multitude, and sawthe trickery of the relic system, he was moved to com Outwardly, the worship of the Saint seemed unabated, the number of pilgrimsshowed no diminution, and the value of their offerings was almost incalculable; butsilently and unseen the spirit of change was working, and, in a few short years, thecrash came. Henry VIII., in 1520, received the Emperor Charles V. at Canterbury just. Il 1MB I K 1 hi 1:1 v k 11 1 N< 1 before the meeting of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and together they knell at theshrine, Cardinal Wolsey near at hand, and the most illustrious nobles of Knglandand Spain crowding the Cathedral; but all this was soon to be changed In pUTSUance of a royal mandate, Archbishop Cranmer ignored the great Festival of theTranslation of the Relics, July 6, 1537, and in tlic following year a summons in theKings name, addressed to Thomas liecket, some time Archbishop of Cantei bcharging him with treason, contumacy and rebellion. was read beside hisThirty days were allowed for his appearance, and when, at tin end of that time. •Cuts by permission ..( The Interior. BATCHELDER GENEALOGY. 19 the beatified offender failed to answer for himself, the case was gravely argued atWestminster by attorneys granted by the Kings grace to him and to Henry to relate, sentence was pronounced again
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