DRAMATIS PERSONS. HENRY II. son of the Earl ofAnjoti. THOMAS BECKET, Chancellor of England, afterwards Arch- bishop of Canterbury. GILBERT FOLIOT, Bishop of London. ROGER, Archbishop of York. Bishop ofHereford. HILARY, Bishop of Chichester. JOCELYN, Bishop ofSalisbury. JOHN OF SALISBURY ,. . .,. friends of Becket. HERBERT OF BOSHAM WALTER MAP, reputed author of GoliasJ Latin poems against the priesthood. KING Louis OF FRANCE. GEOFFREY, son ofRosamundand Henry. GRIM, a monk of Cambridge. SIR REGINALD FITZURSE SIR RICHARD DE BRITO the four knights of the Kings SIR WILLIAM DE TRACY household, enemies ofBecket. SIR HUGH DE MORVILLE DE BROC OF SALTWOOD CASTLE. LORD LEICESTER. PHILIP DE ELEEMOSYNA. Two KNIGHT TEMPLARS. JOHN OF OXFORD called the Swearer, ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE, Queen of England divorcedfrom Louis ofFrance. ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD. MARGERY. Knights, Monks, Beggars, etc. BECKE T. PROLOGUE. A Castle in Normandy. Interior of the Hall. Roofs ofa City seen thro Windows. HENRY and BECKET at chess. HENRY. So then our good Archbishop Theobald Lies dying. BECKET. I am grieved to know as much. HENRY. But we must have a mightier man than he For his successor. BECKET. C B Have you thought of one 2 BECKET. PROLOGUE. HENRY. A cleric lately poisond his own mother, And being brought before the courts of the Church, They but degraded him. I hope they whipt him. I would have hangd him. BECKET. HENRY. It is your move. Well there. Moves. The Church in the pell-mell of Stephens time Hath climbd the throne and almost clutchd the crown But by the royal customs of our realm The Church should hold her baronies of me, Like other lords amenable to law. Ill have them written down and made the law. BECKET. My liege, I move my bishop. HENRY. And if I live, No man without my leave shall excommunicate My tenants or my household. PROLOGUE. BECKET. 3 BECKET. HENRY. Look to your king. No man without my leave shall cross the seas To set the Pope against me I pray your pardon. Well will you move B