2-652-187 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Relics Associated with Thomas A Becket', 1886. Thomas a Becket (1118-1170), English churchman, saint and martyr, 1493. Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162, Becket clashed almost incessantly with King Henry II over the question of the independence of the Church from the authority of the state. He was murdered by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral on 29th December, 1170. After J. L. Williams. From the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. From Illustration of English and Scottish History, Volume I by Thomas Archer. [Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1886]