"  A  priel^  at  Winchefter  (lays  that  prelate)
>*  of  good  reputation  for  his  learning  and  moral*?,  ^^

^*  was  lately  murdered  malicioully,  by  VViiliani

\    %  '      "  Frcthet


tt6  HISTORY  ot  TTHE  LIFE

BOOK  V.  €i  Frcchet  and  his  wife ;  nor  do  they  deny  the
JTdTutT^**  faft;  but  they  arc  fetting  out  to  go  to  the
*«  court  of  Rome  :  for  the  nuiband  confides  in
^^  the  beauty  of  his  wife,  and  propofes,  by
**  proftituting  her  in  his  journey,  to  bring  back
^  great  profits,  befides  the  benefit  of  abfoludoa
*<  from  Rome,  Jt  is  ignominious  that  the  kiU-
<*  ing  of  a  goat  or  a  mecp  (hould  be  punifhed
«<  with  more  feverlty  than  the  killing  of  a  prieft»
**  But  we  deferve  this  and  worfe'^  becaufe^  with
*'  a  rajb  ambition^  ive  ufurp  a  jurifdiSiion  he-^
*'  longing  to  another^  and  to  which  we  have  not
'*  the  leajl  titUr

This  propofition,  fo  contrary  to  the  tenets  of
Becket,  he  fupports  by  ftrong  reafons,  by  clear
authorities  from  the  fcriptures^  by  canons  of
councils,  by  citations  from  the  fathers,  and
even  from  the  epiftles  of  fome  of  the  more
andent  popes,  after  which  he  concludes  with
this  exhortation,  "  Rendering  ^therefore  unta
**  God  the  things  which  are  God's^  and  unfa
*'  Cajar  the  things  which  are  Cafar^s^  let  usy
•^  according  to  the  king*s  requefi^  leave  to  him  the
•'  vengeance  ofjuch  heinous  affences^

From  this  letter,  of  which  a  trsmfcript  is
given  in  the  appendix  to  this  book,  it  evidently
appears,  that  the  promifes  made  to  cardinal
Huguzon  and  the  pope,  in  the  year  eleven
hundred  and  fevcnty-fix,  by  the  king,  had
not  taken  effeft ;  but  that  he  was  endeavouring,.
