The British nation a history / by George MWrong . 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 Thomask Becket was brutallymurdered in tlie northtransept of his cathe-dral church. The murder ofBecket seemed for atime disastrous to Hen-ry. His own wo
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . 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 Thomask Becket was brutallymurdered in tlie 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 Popeprotesting his innocence of the murder, and to be for a„, ,^ „ time out of the reach of adverse action he The results 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. Murder of Becket. 100 THE BRITISH NATION
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