A Complete History of England From the Descent of Julius Caesar to the Treaty
A Complete History of England From the Descent of Julius Caesar to the Treaty
Smollett, Tobias George, 1721-1771
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The monks had laid it upon the high altar $ but hearing that the murderers intended to return H E N R Y II. 137 return and throw it into fome indecent and un- a. C. 1170. Hallowed place, they buried it privately in a flone- coffin, near the fpot on which he fuffered •, but it was afterwards, by order of pope Honorius II. Ta- ken up with great folemnity, and depofited in a fumptuous fhrine, at the expence of archbifhop Langton. As for the perpetrators of the fact, they retired to the caftle of K...narefborough in Yorkfhire, belonging to Hugh de Moreville, where they re- mained a whole year fecluded from all fociety ; but, tired at laft of folitude, and commanded by the king to fubmit to the pope's judgment, they went to Rome, and were ordered to make a pil- grimage to Jerufalem. Thus fell the celebrated Mat, Pans * Thomas Becket, one of the moft daring, turbu- lent, vindictive, and ambitious priefts that ever devoted themfelves as miniflers to the ufurpation of the Roman fee, or attempted to aggrandize the church upon the ruins of civil government.
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