Document F

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Document F

• An account of Beckets Murder from a school
  textbook 
• The Knights came into the Church in full armour,
  with swords and axes. The monks told the
  archbishop to flee into the Church, where they
  thought he would be safe. Becket refused. The
  monks pushed him into the Church anyway and the
  Knights followed him inside.
• The Archbishop ordered that the doors of the
  Church should be kept open. The Knights called
  out Where is Thomas Becket, traitor to the King
  and the country?
• Becket replied Here I am, no traitor to the
  King, but a priest. He stood by a pillar. Fly
  from the Church, or you are a dead man they
  said. They tried their best to get him out of
  the Church, but they couldnt succeed.

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Document F contd.

• Becket lifted his head up and put his hands
  together. The Knights then hit him twice in the
  head. After the third blow he fell to his knees
  and said, For the name of Jesus I am ready to
  die. He did nothing to resist any of the blows.
• The next blow lopped off the top of his head and
  his brains spilled over the floor. He had been
  hit so hard that the sword of Richard Brito was
  broken. During this, one of the Knights warded
  off anyone who sought to interfere. A fifth
  knight, Hugh of Horsea, placed his boot on the
  neck of Becket and scattered the blood and brains
  all over the floor of the Church.