Stowe, p.

575.
** Goodwin's Annals.

Stowe, p.575.Herbert.Baker, p.

286.
But of all the instruments of ancient superstition, no one was so zealously destroyed as the shrine of Thomas a Becket, commonly called St.Thomas of Canterbury.

This saint owed his canonization to the zealous defence which he had made for clerical privileges; and on that account also the monks had extremely encouraged the devotion of pilgrimages towards his tomb, and numberless were the miracles which they pretended his relics wrought in favor of his devout votaries.