[320] Herb. Bosh. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. iii.) pp. 468, 469. Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ibid._), p. 114. Garnier (Hippeau), p. 154. _Thomas Saga_ (Magnusson), vol. i. p. 469. The writer of the _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs, vol. i. p. 8) gives the date of this meeting as Tuesday, October 12. But this must be quite ten days too late, for we shall see that a letter drawn up after the meeting was received in England on October 5. [321] Ep. dclxxxiv. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. vii.), pp. 333–337. [322] Henry alleged that he had publicly sworn never to give Thomas the kiss of peace, and could not face the shame of breaking his oath. Garnier (Hippeau), p. 150; Herb. Bosh. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. iii.), p. 450; Ep. dcxxiii. (_ib._ vol. vii.) pp. 198, 199; _Thomas Saga_, as above, p. 449. See in Herb. Bosh. (as above), p. 469, Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ibid._), p. 115, and _Thomas Saga_ (as above), p. 469, the contrivance by which he avoided it at Tours--or Amboise, in William’s version. [323] Garnier (Hippeau), pp. 156, 157. The letter, of which Garnier gives a translation, is Ep. dcxc. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. vii.) pp. 346, 347; also in Will. Cant. (_ib._ vol. i.), p. 85; Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ib._ vol. iii.), p. 112; Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 221; R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 339. [324] Ep. dccxv. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. vii.), p. 389. [325] Ep. dccxxxiii. (_ibid._), p. 402. [326] Chaumont on the Loire, seemingly. Herb. Bosh. (_ib._ vol. iii.), p. 470. Cf. _Thomas Saga_, as above, pp. 471–473. [327] Will. Fitz-Steph. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. iii.), pp. 115, 116. The duty finally devolved solely upon the dean, who was no other than Thomas’s old opponent John of Oxford.[328] Naturally enough, the primate was deeply hurt at being thus sent back to his see under the protection of a man who, as he truly said, ought to have been thankful for the privilege of travelling in his suite.[329] Thomas, however, was in haste to be gone, although fully persuaded that he was going to his death. He seems indeed to have been weary of life; the tone of his letters and of his parting words to the friends whom he was leaving in France indicates not so much a morbid presentiment of his fate as a passionate longing for it. Yet it can hardly have been from him alone that the foreboding communicated itself to so many other minds. Warnings came to him from all quarters; one voice after another, from the king of France[330] down to the very pilot of the ship in which he took his passage, implored him not to go; Herbert of Bosham alone upheld his resolution to the end.[331] [328] _Ib._ p. 116. Epp. dccxxii., dccxxiii. (_ib._ vol. vii.), pp. 400, 403. Garnier (Hippeau), p. 160. [329] Will. Fitz-Steph. as above.