. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . A St Thomas Ampulla. HENRY II of the murder, that for a season Henry found himself com-pletely shut out from the hearts of his people. Henry, on his part, when he received the ill news in Nor-mandy, was horrified and filled with despair. For three dayshe shut himself away from his fellows. As for the assassins,he knew not what attitude to adopt. To ptmish them forobeying what they had beUeved were his orders seemedunjust; to spare them was to convict himself in his peopleseyes of being the direct instigator and author of their fina


. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . A St Thomas Ampulla. HENRY II of the murder, that for a season Henry found himself com-pletely shut out from the hearts of his people. Henry, on his part, when he received the ill news in Nor-mandy, was horrified and filled with despair. For three dayshe shut himself away from his fellows. As for the assassins,he knew not what attitude to adopt. To ptmish them forobeying what they had beUeved were his orders seemedunjust; to spare them was to convict himself in his peopleseyes of being the direct instigator and author of their finally resolved to leave them to the judgment of thespiritual courts. They travelled to Rome, and were exhorted,and indeed directed, to make the pilgrimage to apparently fitz Urse died. ^ Expedition against Ireland With the death of Becket the main interest of Henrysreign instantly centres in his administrative reforms. Becket,saint and martyr though he may have been, had suffered inthe cause of the Church rather than in support of his as a


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