[139] "Ad mortem nos invitat et sanguinis effusionem, cum ipse mortem, quam nemo sibi dignabatur aut minabatur inferre, summo studio declinaverit et suum sanguinem illibatum conservando, ejus nec guttam effundi voluerit."--Giles vi. 196. Bouquet, 304. [140] Giles, vi. 148. Bouquet, 304. [141] Giles, vi. 135, 141. Bouquet, 306. William of Pavia recommended the translation of Becket to some other see. [142] Giles, iii. 28. Bouquet, 306. [143] One of his letters to William of Pavia begins with this fierce denunciation: "Non credebam me tibi venalem proponendum emptoribus, ut de sanguine meo compareres tibi compendium de pretio iniquitatis, faciens tibi nomen et gloriam."--Giles, iii. 153. Becket always represents his enemies as thirsting after his blood. [144] Giles, iv. 128; vi. 133. Bouquet, 312, 313. [145] Epist. Giles, ii. 24. [146] He was at Benevento, though with different degrees of power, from August 22, 1167, to Feb. 24, 1170. [147] Giles, iii. p. 55. Bouquet, 317. Read the whole letter beginning "Anima mea." [148] Bouquet, 324. [149] Epist. Giles, iv. Bouquet, 320. [150] Their instructions are dated May 25, 1168. See also the wavering letters to Becket and the King of France.--Giles, iv. p. 25, p. 111. [151] "Sed quid? Nobis ita consilium suspendentibus et hæsitantibus quid agendum a pacis mediatoribus, multis et magnis viris, et præsertim qui inter ipsos a viris religiosis et aliis archipræsuli amicissimis et familiarissimis, adeo sicut et supra diximus, suasus, tractus et impulsus est, ut haberetur persuasus."--De Bosham, p. 268. [152] "Sed mox adjecit, quod nec rex nec pacis mediatores, vel alii, vel etiam sui propriè æstimaverunt, ut adjiceret videlicet 'Salvo honore Dei.'"--De Bosham, p. 262. In his account to the Pope of this meeting, Becket suppresses his own tergiversation on this point.--Epist. Giles, iii. p. 43. Compare John of Salisbury (who was not present). Bouquet, 395. [153] "Ut quid nos et vos strangulatis?"--Epist. Giles, iii. 312. [154] Throughout the Pope kept up his false game. He privately assured the King of France that he need not be alarmed if himself (Alexander) seemed to take part against the archbishop. The cause was safe in his bosom. See the curious letter of Matthew of Sens.--Epist. Giles, iv. p. 166. [155] "Nunc præter ecclesiæ causam, expressam ipsius etiam Dei causam agebamus."--De Bosham, 272. [156] De Bosham, 278. [157] Giles, iii. 290; vi. 293. Bouquet, 346. [158] Giles, iii. 322. Bouquet, 348. [159] Epist. Giles, iv. 225. [160] Fragm. Vit. Giles, i. p. 371. [161] "Et quod omnes Romanos datâ pecuniâ inducant ut faciant fidelitatem domino Papæ, dummodo in nostrâ dejectione regis Angliæ satisfaciat voluntati."--Epist. ad Humbold. Card. Giles, iii. 123. Bouquet, 350. Compare Lambeth, on the effect of Italian affairs on the conduct of the Pope.--p. 106. [162] Epist. 188, p. 266. [163] Fitz-Stephen, p. 271.