EOdem tempore, levatum est de lapide marmoreo corpus Beati Thomae Archiepis∣copi* 1.1 & Martyris, a Stephano Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, praesente Rege, & omnibus ferè Episcopis totius Regni, cum Abbatibus, Prioribus, Comitibus, Baronibus, Clero & populo multo, in crastino Octavarum Apostolorum Petri & Pauli. Cujus corpus sanctissimum collocatum est honorifice in Pheretro, ex auro & lapidibus preti∣osis mirabiliter fabrefacto. Interfuerunt etiam huic translationi, Archiepiscopi, Epis∣copi, Abbates, Priores, & alii multi de Regno Francorum, aliarumque diversarum Regi∣onum, qui ob honorem & reverentiam Beati Martyris, ut tantae adessent solemnitati▪ ala∣criter convenerunt. Nam dignissimum omnibus videbarur, ut Sanctum Martyrem Christi generaliter honorarent et colerent, qui pro uni∣versali Ecclesia sanguinem suum fundere, et ad finem usque non timuit fideliter decertare.
It is observable, That most of the English, many of the French Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Clergy, and of other Countries, were by the Archbishops invitation present at the translation of this Arch-traytor Becket, as most worthy to be honoured and worshipped as a Saint and Martyr for the universal Church of Christ, for which he shed his blood, and truthfully contested against his Soveraign till the last, only to exempt Clergymen, (though Traytors, Rebels, Murderers, So∣domites, Theeves) from secular Jurisdiction, and overturn the antient Rights, Prerogatives of the Crown, and Kingdom too, as the premises demonstrate. No wonder therefore that so many Archbishops, Bishops, and Clergymen, in our own and other Kingdoms, became Arch-traytors, Rebels to their Emperors and Kings, since it was the readiest way to procure the highest preferments that Popes could conferre upon them in their lives, and a canonization, adoration of them for Saints and holy Martyrs after their deaths.
King Henry the 3d. this year issued on a memorable Prohibition and Proclama∣tion to the Sheriffs of Middlesex, Hertford, and Surry, prohibiting any to enter into any the Lands of the Bishop of London under a penalty, as his Father King John had done before him.