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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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  • 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.
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