[164] "Domo vestra flagellum suspendit impius, ne quod promereret, propinquorum vestrorum ministerio veniat super eum."--Giles, iii. 338. Bouquet, 358. [165] Giles, iii. 201. Bouquet, 361. [166] "Amici ad Thomam."--Giles, iv. 277. Bouquet, 370. [167] Henry, it should be observed, waived all the demands which he had hitherto urged against Becket, for debts incurred during his chancellorship. [168] Epist. Giles, iv. 216. Bouquet, 373. [169] "Revocato consensu," writes the Bishop of Nevers, a moderate prelate, who regrets the obstinacy of the nuncios. Giles, vi. 266. Bouquet, 377. Compare the letter of the clergy of Normandy to the Pope.--Giles, vi. 177. Bouquet, 377. [170] Becket thought, or pretended to think, that under the "dignitatibus" lurked the "consuetudinibus."--Giles, iii. 299. Bouquet, 379. [171] "Ceteras vestras recepimus, et ipsas adhuc penes nos habemus, in quibus terram nostram et personas regni a præfata Cantuarensis potestate eximebatis, donec ipse in gratiam nostram rediisset."--Epist. Giles, vi. 291. Bouquet, 374. [172] "Nam quod mundus sentit, dolet, ingemiscit, nullus adeo iniquam causam ad ecclesiam Romanam defert, quin ibi spe lucri concepta ne dixerim odore sordium, adjutorem inveniat et patronum."--Epist. iii. 133; Bouquet, 382. [173] Giles, iii. 250; Bouquet, 387. [174] Giles, iii. 334; Bouquet, 388. [175] Giles, iii. 42; Bouquet, 390. Reginald of Salisbury was an especial object of Becket's hate. He calls him one born in fornication ("fornicarium"), son of a priest. Reginald hated Becket with equal cordiality. Becket had betrayed him by a false promise of not injuring his father. "Quod utique ipsi non plus quam cani faceremus."--This letter contains Reginald's speech about Henry having the College of Cardinals in his pay.--Giles, iii. 225; Bouquet, 391. [176] Becket writes to the Pope, January 1170. "Nec vos oportet de cætero vereri, ne transeat ad schismaticos, quod sic eum Christus in manu famuli sui, regis Francorum subegit, ut ab obsequio ejus non possit amplius separari."--p. 48. [177] Many difficult points arose. Did Becket demand not merely the actual possessions of the see, but all to which he laid claim? There were three estates held by William de Ros, Henry of Essex, and John the Marshall (the original object of dispute at Northampton?), which Becket specifically required and declared that he would not give up if exiled for ever.--Epist. Giles, iii. 220; Bouquet, 400. [178] Epist. Giles, iii. 262; Bouquet, 199. [179] Epist. ibid.; Radulph de Diceto. [180] According to Pope Alexander, Henry offered that his son should give the kiss of peace in his stead.--Giles, iv. 55. [181] See his letter to his emissaries at Rome.--Giles, iii. 219; Bouquet, 401. [182] Ricardus Dorubernensis apud Twysden. Lord Lyttelton has another copy, in his appendix; in that a ninth article forbade the payment of Peter's Pence to Rome; it was to be collected and brought into the exchequer.