[270] Herb. Bosh. (_ib._ vol. iii.), p. 391, says “proximâ ante festum die,” and he makes the festival that of S. Mary Magdalene, the patron of the place. Tempting, however, as his version is--for it would explain at once Thomas’s otherwise rather unaccountable choice of Vézelay for the scene of his proceedings, and the great concourse of people who evidently were assembled there--it is quite irreconcileable with the minute chronological details of John of Salisbury’s letter (Ep. cxciv. as above), written within a few weeks of the events, while Herbert’s story was written from memory, many years after. On the other hand, R. Diceto’s date (Stubbs, vol. i. p. 318), Ascension-day, is more impossible still. [271] Herb. Bosh. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. iii.), p. 391. [272] The details of the sentence are in Thomas’s own letters, Epp. cxcv., cxcvi., cxcviii. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. v.), pp. 386–391, 392–397. Cf. Ep. cxciv. (_ibid._), p. 383. The other excommunicated persons were Ralf de Broc, Hugh of S. Clare and Thomas Fitz-Bernard. Their crime was invasion of Church property. Richard of Ilchester and John of Oxford were condemned for their dealings with the schismatics; Richard de Lucy and Jocelyn de Bailleul, as being the authors of the Constitutions. [273] Epp. cxciv., cxcvi., cxcviii. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. v.), pp. 382, 383, 391, 396. Herb. Bosh. (_ib._ vol. iii.), pp. 391, 392.