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St Thomas Becket, St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London (1120 (?) - 1170)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27201?docPos=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket Authority - medieval
Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury
Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a work of art - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) The Story of St. Thomas Becket's Murther, who is represented as saying Mass at the high Altar, and the Russians breaking in upon him; it is upon Copper, gilt and enamel'd. Don. D. Sam. Smith.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 108. 1. The tyllinge of trees aftir Godfray uppon Palladie. 2. A Tretee of Nicholas Bollard departid in 3 Parties; 1. of gendrying of Trees; 2. of graffyinge; the third forsoth is of altracions. 3. A Treatise of Cookery in old English, but the Title French, Le maniere pour rost buller & frier diverses Pessons. 4. The parayllous dayes of the yeere. 5. Medecynes of maister William du Jordyne gyven to kyng Henry Regent and Heuter of the Reume of Fraunce. 6. A moste piteous Chronicle of thorribill dethe of James Stewarde last kyng of Scotys, nought long agone prisoner yn Englande yn the tymes of the kynges Henrye the fifte and Henry the sixte translated out of Latyne into oure moders Englishe tong bi your symple Subject John Shirley. (this was K. James the first of Scotland.) 7. An approbate Treite for the Pestilence studied by the gretteste doctours of Fisike amonges th Universitie of Christen nacions yn the tyme of Sante Thomes of Caunturbury. 8. The desirid peace betwene Sigismonde Emperour and Kyng Henry. 9. The Boke cleped les Bones Meures (translated out of French by your umble Servyture John Shirley of London Anno 1440) comprised in five partys, the 1st partie spekith of Remedie that is against the sevyn dedlye synnes; 2. the Estate of holy Church; 3. of Prynces and of Lordes temporal; 4. of comone peple; 5. of dethe and universal dome. 10. The Governance of Kynges and Princes, seyd the secrete of secretes the whych Arestotle made and direct hit to Alexander the grete conqueroure of the worlde. This MS. came from Selby, and is said to have belonged to the Monastery there. Don. D. Tho. Wilson Merc. Leod.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

184. Hore beate Marie Virginis secundum usum Sarum; (amongst other Saints is Tho. Becket Archbishop of Canterbury.) Don. Rev. Edw. Clark M. A.

British Curiosities in Nature and Art (1713)
SECT. X. Curiosities in the County of Kent. ...

Canterbury] a City (whose Bishop is primate and Metropolitan of all England) Remarkable for the Magnificence and Beauty of Christ Church, and St. Austins; in the former were interred Archbishop Becket, for whom a rich shrine was reared; he being a Canonized Saint. Here is also, the Tomb of the famous Hero Edward the Black Prince, Son to Edward the III. King of England, and that of King Henry the IV. &c. In the Porch of the latter Church, was buryed St. Augustin; (the English Apostle) who was the Chief of those that were sent from Rome, and converted the Heathen Saxons to Christianity. It is about 55 Miles near S. E. from London.