Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ket was forced to flee tothe continent. Henry desired that his son should succeed him with-out opposition, and, therefore, he had the young princecrowned and associated with him in the government. Ithad become a custom for the Archbishopof Canterbury to perform the ceremony ofcoronation, and when in his exile Becketlearned that the young prince had beencrowned by the Archbishop of York, hefelt this as another insult, and straightwaybrought it about th
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ket was forced to flee tothe continent. Henry desired that his son should succeed him with-out opposition, and, therefore, he had the young princecrowned and associated with him in the government. Ithad become a custom for the Archbishopof Canterbury to perform the ceremony ofcoronation, and when in his exile Becketlearned that the young prince had beencrowned by the Archbishop of York, hefelt this as another insult, and straightwaybrought it about that the Pope excom-municated several councillors whom Becketthought in fault. Even after this therewas so much of a reconciliation betweenBecket and Henry that the archbishop re-turned to England. Henry was in France,and the next news brought him was thatBecket had persuaded the Pope to excom-municate several bishops who had assistedat the coronation of the prince. When ^as A BecketHenry was really angry, he was almost like a madman;and now he called out in a fury: Will no one deliver mefrom this insolent priest? He always declared that he. 58 HISTORY OF ENGLAND [1170 did not mean that he wished Becket to be murdered,but there were four men who took this meaning fromhis words. They set out for Canterbury and struck downthe archbishop in the church. The whole land wasaghast. Henry was frightened, and he was sincerelysorry for the words that he had spoken in his anger, andwhose consequences had been so far beyond his gave up nearly every point upon which he and the deadarchbishop had differed. The Pope believed in his peni-tence and granted him forgiveness. But not long after all kinds of troubles came upon theland,—invasion, revolt, tempest. It was generally be-lieved that this was in consequence of the murder,and that the king must do more to prove his mounted his horse and rode to the town ofCanterbury. Then he put on a woollen shirt and a coarseclo
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