5.1. A letter of the king touch|ing the pacification betweene him and Thomas Becket.
A letter of the king touch|ing the pacification betweene him and Thomas Becket.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 _KNow ye that Thomas the archbi|shop of Canturburie hath made his peace with me at my will and pleasure; and therefore I command you, that both he and his may re|maine in peace; and that he and al those which for his cause departed out of the realme, may haue all their goods restored, and in such quiet estate be now possessed of them as at any time within three moneths before their departure from thence. And further, cause to come be|fore vs of the best and most ancient knights of the honor of Saltwood, The honor of Saltwood. that vpon their oths they may find what fee the archbishop ought to haue within that honor, & that which shall appeare to apperteine vnto him, as in fee, let him inioy the same. And thus farewell.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The archbishop (before he tooke his iournie into England) went to visit the French king, and to giue him thanks for his great paines and trauell sustei|ned in his cause,The French kings aduice to the arch|bish. Becket. who aduised him in no wise as yet to commit himselfe to present danger amongst his new reconciled enimies, but rather to staie till their malice were somewhat asswaged. For he perceiued by king Henries words & countenance such a deepe rooted displeasure in his hart, that he agréed to re|ceiue him into fauour rather by compulsion and a|gainst his will than otherwise.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But when the archbishop would needs depart & go ouer into England, the French K. suffered him so to doo, dooing him all the honor he could at his leaue ta|king. Then the archbishop departing out of France, came into England, Matth. Paris. The archbi|shop Becket returneth into England. and landed at Sandwich about the first of December, in the seuenth yeare after his first departure out of the realme. Shortlie after his arriuall, Roger the archbishop of Yorke, Gilbert bi|shop of London, and Iocelin bishop of Salisburie, with diuerse other, came vnto him as to the popes le|gat, and required that it might please him to restore them to the ministration of their offices againe: whose request he granted, but yet vpon condition, that they should vndertake to stand to his iudge|ment and order in all things, which (by the counsell of the archbishop of Yorke) they vtterlie refused.