[125] Garnier, as above. Will. Cant. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. i.), p. 23. E. Grim (_ib._ vol. ii.), p. 383. Anon. I. (_ib._ vol. iv.), p. 37. Cf. Joh. Salisb. (_ib._ vol. ii.), p. 311; Herb. Bosh. (_ib._ vol. iii.), p. 288; Anon. II. (_ib._ vol. iv.), p. 103, and _Thomas Saga_ (Magnusson), vol. i. pp. 167–169. Will. Fitz-Steph. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. iii.), pp. 48, 49, says that Thomas did set his seal to the constitutions; but his statement is at variance with those of all other authorities; and he himself afterwards recites two speeches made at Northampton, one by Thomas and one by Hilary of Chichester, both distinctly affirming that none of the bishops sealed. _Ib._ pp. 66, 67. [126] Garnier (Hippeau), p. 38. Will. Cant. (as above), p. 24. Joh. Salisb. (_ib._ vol. ii.), p. 312. E. Grim (_ibid._), p. 383. Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ib._ vol. iii.), p. 49. Herb. Bosh. (_ibid._), pp. 289–292. Anon. I. (_ib._ vol. iv.), p. 37. It was to the Pope that both parties looked for a settlement of their dispute; but Alexander, ill acquainted both with the merits of the case and with the characters of the disputants, and beset on all sides with political difficulties, could only strive in vain to hold the balance evenly between them. Meanwhile the political quarrel of king and primate was embittered by an incident in which Henry’s personal feelings were stirred. His brother William--the favourite young brother whom he had once planned to establish as sovereign in Ireland--had set his heart upon a marriage with the widowed countess of Warren; the archbishop had forbidden the match on the ground of affinity, and his prohibition had put an end to the scheme.[127] Baffled and indignant, William returned to Normandy and poured the story of his grievance into the sympathizing ears first of his mother and then, as it seems, of the brotherhood at Bec.[128] On January 29, 1164--one day before the dissolution of the council of Clarendon--he died at Rouen;[129] and a writer who was himself at that time a monk at Bec not only implies his own belief that the young man actually died of disappointment, but declares that Henry shared that belief, and thenceforth looked upon the primate by whom the disappointment had been caused as little less than the murderer of his brother.[130] The king’s exasperation was at any rate plain to all eyes; and as the summer drew on Thomas found himself gradually deserted. His best friend, John of Salisbury, had already been taken from his side, and was soon driven into exile by the jealousy of the king;[131] another friend, John of Canterbury, had been removed out of the country early in 1163 by the ingenious device of making him bishop of Poitiers.[132] The old dispute concerning the relations between Canterbury and York had broken out afresh with