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The four knights who would kill Becket had no doubt about what Henry had in mind, and rushed to Normandy to take a ship to Kent. Dawn the next day, December 29th, 1170, Becket' s last. Reginald fitzUrse, William de Tracy, Robert le Bret and Hugh de Morville arrived in England and set off for Canterbury. At around three, they burst into the Archbishop' s palace where they found Thomas with his advisors. When the knights came in, he studiously ignored them. Reginald fitzUrse broke the silence by saying he had an important message from the King which was that Becket should go to Winchester and give an account of his conduct. Becket said he had no intention of being treated like a criminal. Things rapidly got ugly, fitzUrse ominously declaring that Becket was no longer under the King' s peace. Ought Becket to have temporised, to have made an escape while there was still time? " My mind is made up," he told his follower John of Salisbury, " I know exactly what I have to do. Please God, you have chosen well," replied John. |
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nà sì míng qí shì wán quán qīng chǔ guó wáng de yì tú, tā men yào shā sǐ bèi kè tè, tā men cóng nuò màn dǐ zuò chuán gǎn dào kěn tè jùn. cì rì lí míng shí fèn, 1170 nián 12 yuè 29 rì, bèi kè tè dà xiàn yǐ zhì, léi jīn nà dé fèi zé sī wēi lián dé tè léi xī, luó bó tè lēi bù léi tè hé xiū dé mò wéi ěr, dǐ dá yīng gé lán hòu dòng shēn qián wǎng kǎn tè bó léi. dà yuē sān diǎn zhōng, tā men chuǎng jìn le dà zhǔ jiào gōng, fā xiàn tuō mǎ sī hé tā de gù wèn men zài yì qǐ. qí shì jìn lái hòu, zhǔ jiào gù yì wú shì tā men, fèi zé sī dǎ pò le chén mò, tā shuō, tā lái chuán dá bì xià de zhòng yào zhǐ yì, bèi kè tè bì xū qù wēn qiē sī tè wèi tā de suǒ zuò suǒ wéi ér qǐng zuì. bèi kè tè shēng chēng zì jǐ wú yì bèi dàng zuò zuì fàn, yú shì shì tài xùn sù è huà, fèi zé sī de shēng yīn rú tóng sāng zhōng, tā xuān bù bèi kè tè yǐ bù zài xiǎng yǒu guó wáng de bì hù. bèi kè tè shì fǒu běn gāi jiàn jī xíng shì, chèn wéi shí wèi wǎn ér shè fǎ táo pǎo," wǒ yì yǐ jué". tā gào sù tā de mì shū, suǒ ěr zī bó lǐ de yuē hàn," wǒ hěn qīng chǔ zì jǐ gāi zuò shí mǒ"" shàng dì bǎo yòu nǐ zuò chū le zhèng què de xuǎn zé" yuē hàn huí dá. |