[483] Ellis, ibid., pp. 79, 80, Sept. 1537 (?).
[484] Patent of 19 Richard II in the appendix to Mr. Karkeek’s essay, “Chaucer’s Schipman and his Barge, ‘The Maudelayne,’” Chaucer Society “Essays,” 1884.
[485] Becquet or Becchet, of Norman blood, both on his father’s side, who was from Thierceville, as on his mother’s, who was from Caen.
Desuz le frunt li bullit la cervelle.
A real Turpin, but who long survived the event, was Archbishop of Reims at the time of the Roncevaux disaster.
[487] Moved in July, 1220 to Trinity Chapel, behind the high altar.
[488] A beautifully illustrated fragment of a life of the saint, in French verse of the thirteenth century, has been published with facsimiles by Paul Meyer: “Fragments d’une vie de saint Thomas de Cantorbéry,” Paris, 1885. A remarkable thirteenth-century picture of the murder, with obvious attention to historical exactitude, is in one of the MSS. of the Yates Thompson Collection, reproduced in the Catalogue of the sale (March 23, 1920), lot xxxiv.
[489] Something yet remains of the bas relief representing his life above the portal of the southern transept of the cathedral at Bayeux.
[490] “Historical Memorials of Canterbury,” chap. iv.