[137] Giles, iii. p. 21. Compare the whole letter.
[138] Foliot rather profanely said, the primate seems to think that as sin is washed away in baptism, so debts are cancelled by promotion.
[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.