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but especially complaineth of his fellow Bishops which should have took their Metropolitans part; the next day the King laid an action against him for the injury done to his Marshall, and required the Archbishop to repay him 500. marks which he lent him when he was Chancellor: he answered it was given him, but could bring no probation thereof: whereupon the King required him to put in an assurance for the payment: whereupon 5. persons of their own accord st•pped in and were bound for it, else the Archbishop had been in a great strait: the third day he was charged with other monies due unto the King, by reason of many Bishoprics, & Abbaricks which he had kept long vacant in his hands, & he & all the Bishops being shut into a room together by the Kings appointment, they did all take counsel what was best for the Archb. to do in this case, they all advised him to yield to the ⟨p. 60⟩Kings Laws, or else he would be in danger and the rest of the Clergy, or else to resign his Arch-bishopric, and then no doubt the King would have compassion on him, if not, they saw no other way but he would loose his life, and then what good would his Bishopric do him: to this effect was their consultation. Becket checked them with rebukeful words, you go about to cherish your own cowardliness with a shadow of sufferance, and with dissembling softness to choke the liberty of the Church: who hath thus bewitched you O unsatiable Bishops! is not God able to help the state of the Church without the sinful dissimulation of the teachers thereof? when should the Governors thereof put themselves in danger for the Church, but in the distress thereof, I think it no greater merit for the ancient Bishops to found the Church with their blood, then for us to effude our blood for the liberties of the same, and I think it not safe for you to swerve from the example which you have received from your holy Elders. Then the Arch-bishop sent for two Earls, to whom the Archbishop said: touching the matters betwixt the King & us, we have conferred, we would crave respite until the morrow, then we will be ready to give our answer unto the King: two Bishops were sent to the King with this message, which the King granted, the convocation being dissolved, the most part of the Bishops separated themselves from the Arch-bishop▪ for fear of the Kings displeasure:

but especially complaineth of his fellow Bishops which should haue tooke their Metropolitans part; the next day the King laide an action against him for the iniury done to his Marshall, and required the Archbishop to repay him 500. markes which he lent him when he was Chancellor: he answered it was giuen him, but could bring no probation therof: whervpon the King required him to put in an assurance for the paiment: wherevpon 5. persons of their own accord stpped in and were bound for it, else the Archbishop had béen in a great strait: the third day he was charged with other monies due vnto the King, by reason of many Bishopricks, & Abbaricks which he had kept long vacant in his hands, & he & al the Bishops being shut into a roome together by the Kings appointment, they did all take counsell what was best for the Archb. to doe in this case, they all aduised him to yeeld to the