Compare 1577 edition: 1 The tenor of these letters were scarslie read, but euerie man with a lowd voice began to recite this psalme or hymne, Te Deum laudamus. Furthermore bicause his suffragans had not exhibited due reue|rence to him their father, either in time of his ba|nishment, or at his returne from the same, but ra|ther persecuted him; that they might openlie con|fesse their errour and wickednesse to all men, they made this collect: Be fauourable good Lord to our supplication and praier, A collect deui|sed in honor of the archbishop Becket. that we which acknowledge our selues guiltie of iniquitie, may be deliuered by the intercession of Thomas thy blessed martyr and bishop, Amen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This praier was vsed by the couent of S. Albons on the daie of his martyrdome. Thus

—caeca superstitionis

Est facilísque via & cunctis iam cognita saeclis.

¶ Notwithstanding all which honour of the pope then exhibited to his saint, as his canonization, with other solemnities procured for the maintenance of his memoriall in all ages succeeding; what remem|brance is there now of Thomas Becket? Where be the shrines that were erected in this church and that chappell for perpetuities of his name and fame? Are they not all defaced? are they not all ruinated? are they not all conuerted to powder and dust? And al|though the pope ment by causing such ikons to be e|rected, to prefer Thomas as a perpetuall saint to all posterities, and thought as he that said of his poems,

Exegi monumentum aere perennius,

Regalíque situ pyramidum altius,

Quod non imber edax non aquilo impotens

Possit diruere aut innumerabilis

Annorum series & fuga temporum,