[314] “In limitibus suis inter Firmitatem, oppidum scilicet in pago Carnotensi, et Fretivalle, castrum videlicet in territorio Turonensi.” Ep. dclxxxv. (_ibid._), p. 339. This _Firmitas_ must be La Ferté-Villeneuil, and _Turonensi_ should be _Vindocinensi_. Herb. Bosh., who lays the scene “in confinio Carnotusiæ et _Cenomanniæ_, inter duo castella quorum unum nominatur Viefui” [Viévy-le-Rayé] “et alterum Freteval” (_ib._ vol. iii. p. 466), is no nearer to the true geography. [315] “Et crastinâ die habebit pacem suam latro vester; et quidem bonam habebit.” Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ibid._), p. 108. [316] Ep. dclxxxv. (_ib._ vol. vii.), p. 340. [317] Herb. Bosh. (_ib._ vol. iii.), p. 466. _Thomas Saga_ (Magnusson), vol. i. p. 461. [318] Epp. dclxxxiv., dclxxxv. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. vii.), pp. 326–334, 340–342. Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ib._ vol. iii.), pp. 108–111. Herb. Bosh. (_ibid._), p. 466. Garnier (Hippeau), pp. 150, 151. _Thomas Saga_ (as above), pp. 461–465. Henry had no sooner returned to Normandy than he fell sick almost to death; on his recovery he went on a pilgrimage to the shrine of our Lady at Rocamadour in the Quercy,[319] and it was not until October that Thomas again saw him at Tours, on his way to a conference with Count Theobald of Blois at Amboise.[320] A difficulty had arisen about the restitution of the confiscated Church property and the absolution of the persons whom Thomas had excommunicated, each party insisting that the other should make the first step in conciliation.[321] There was also a difficulty about the kiss of peace, which Thomas required as pledge of Henry’s sincerity, but which Henry seemed desirous of postponing indefinitely.[322] Nevertheless, a letter from Henry to his son, announcing the reconciliation and bidding the young king enforce the restoration of the archiepiscopal estates, was drawn up in Thomas’s presence at Amboise and sent over to England by the hands of two of his clerks,[323] who presented it at Westminster on October 5.[324] The restoration was, however, not effected until Martinmas, and then it comprised little more than empty garners and ruined houses.[325] Thomas saw the king once more, at Chaumont,[326] and Henry promised to meet him again at Rouen, thence to proceed with him to England in person.[327] Before the appointed time came, however, fresh complications had arisen with the king of France; Henry was obliged to give up all thought of going not only to England but even to Normandy, and delegated the archbishop of Rouen and the dean of Salisbury to escort Thomas in his stead. [319] _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. i. pp. 6, 7.