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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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The same author also writeth,1 that the aforesaid Thomas Becket made his Confessor every Wednesday and Friday to beat him with a rod ⟨image 211⟩upon his bare body, as a child is beaten in the School (that is to say,) on the arse, that he might suffer worthy penance.
The same author also writeth,1 that the aforesayde Thomas Beckette made hys Confessoure euerye Wednisdaye and Fryday to beate him with a rodde ⟨image 211⟩vpon his bare body, as a childe is beaten in the Schole (that is to say,) on the arsse, that he myghte suffer worthye penaunce.
- 1Beckets penance very homely.Beckets penaunce very homely.
Ranulphus Cestrensis in his Chronicle writeth, that when Thomas Becket was translated, Stephen Archbishop of Canterbury, during the said solemnity, found hay and provender to all men that would ask it in the way between London and Canterbury. Also in the day of the Translation he made wine to run in pipes continually in diverse places of the City: and so the cost that Stephen made in this solemnity, his fourth successor Bonifacius hardly payed it. In Polichron. Lib. 7. Cap. 34.
Ranulphus Cestrensis in his Chronicle writeth, that when Thomas Becket was translated, Stephen Archbishop of Cantorburye, duryng the said solemnitie, founde haye and prouender to all men that would aske it in the way betwene London and Cantorbury. Also in the day of the Translation he made wyne to runne in pypes continuallye in diuerse places of the Citye: and so ye coste that Stephen made in thys solemnitie, his fourth successour Bonifacius hardly payed it. In Polichron. Lib. 7. Cap. 34.