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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 20,293. A priory of Black canons, dedicated to St. Thomas Becket, was founded about two miles east of the town. by …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… coronation of young kg. Henry 14 June 1170 ( Corresp. of Becket II no. 256 (at pp. 1104-5)). Susp. by abp. 18 May 1175 …
Old and New London
… and in later times, after the murder of Thomas Becket had made Canterbury the constant resort of pilgrims …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… coronation of young kg. Henry 14 June 1170 ( Corresp. of Becket II no. 256 (at pp. 1104-5)). D. before 9 May 1176 ( …
Old and New London
… palace, beyond which, eastward, was Pardon Churchyard and Becket Chapel, rebuilt with a stately cloister in the reign …
Old and New London
… between the King and that ambitious Churchman, the Primate Becket. Gilbert Foliot, the learned and austere Bishop of … had sided with the King and provoked the bitter hatred of Becket. During the celebration of mass a daring emissary of Becket had the boldness to thrust a roll, bearing the dreaded …
Survey of London
… named St. Thomas' Spital after the canonization of Thomas Becket in 1173. 186 A disastrous fire destroyed much of the …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… to as the angle tenement, once John Baudrey's, now John Becket's. In his will (1416) Becket left his 'angle tenement with shops opposite the …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… on the N., 105/16 on the W., and the house where Thomas Becket had been born (18) on the E. The property was then …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… Introduction This entry concerns the house where Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury, was born; the … the property corresponded to nos. 85-6 Cheapside in 1858. Becket's birthplace and the hospital of st. Thomas of acre … Land at the time of the third crusade, when the cult of Becket was spreading rapidly throughout Europe. In the 1220s …