Henry IV. wrote a letter to Cardinal Langley, which is preserved in the Treasury,[38] wherein that monarch respected the privilege of sanctuary, even in a case of treason, and asked the protection of St. Cuthbert for the person of Robert Marshall, “late comitted to prison for treason, now escaped and broken into the same into youre church of Duresme; we having tender zele and devocion to the honour of God and St. Cuthbert, ... wol that for that occasion nothyng be attempted that shal be contrarie to the liberties and immunitie of our church. We therefor wol and charge you that he be surely kept there, as ye wol answere unto us for him.—Yeven under our signet at our towne of Stanford, the xxvii day of July.” There was flagrant breach of the ancient privilege of sanctuary, in England, in 1378, in the case of Sir Robert Haule and Sir John Shackle. Having escaped from the Tower, these gentlemen took refuge in Westminster. Boxhall, the constable of the Tower, with fifty armed men pursued them and although the celebration of mass was in progress, when they entered the abbey, they pursued the prisoners and although Sir John Shackle escaped, they killed Sir Robert Haule, by hacking him, with their swords, while he ran around the choir, until he fell dead, with twelve serious wounds, near the prior’s cell.[39] Owen Tudor, the father of Henry VII. took refuge at Westminster and Queen Elizabeth, the widow of Edward IV., with her son, also took sanctuary there to escape the ferocity of her inhuman brother-in-law, Richard III. Sir Thomas More gives a graphic account of the sanctuary of Elizabeth: “Therefore now she (Queen Elizabeth Woodville) toke her younger sonne the Duke of Yorke and her daughters, and went out of the Palays of Westminster, into the Sanctuary and there lodged in the Abbote’s Hac and she and all her children and campaignie were registered for Sanctuary persons. Whereupon, the Bishop (Lord Chancellor Rotheram, Archbishop of Yorke) called up all his servants and took with him the great seal and came before day to the Queen, about whom he found much heavyness, rumble, haste, businesse, conveighaunce, and carriage of her stuffe into Sanctuary. Every man was busy to carry, bear, conveigh, stuffe, chestes, and fardelles, no man was unoccupied, and some carried more than they were commanded to another place. The Queene sat belowe on the rushes, all desolate and dismayed.”[40]