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Deed dated from the martyrdom of St. Thomas. W. D. Macray, ' Magdalen Coll., Oxford,' 122.

Feast of, a forbidden holiday. Southey,
 * Commonplace Book,' ii. 56.

Landernau, Brittany, church dedicated to. E. H. Barker, ' Wayfaring in France,' 298.

Lead tokens. Archaeologist, xxxviii. 132.

Martyrdom on altar frontal. Ibid., Hi. 288.

Martyrdom on fresco, Preston, Sussex. Ibid., xxiii. 316.

Martyrdom on mazer belonging to the Gild of Blessed Virgin Mary of Boston. Peacock, ' Church Furniture,' 195.

Miracles. 'Materials for History of Thomas Becket,' edited by J. C. Robertson (Rolls Series), ii. 21-465.

Oxford, well at. "Gentleman's Magazine Library": 'English Topography,' vi. 166.

Paris, Notre Dame, chapel in. Winkles, 'French Cathedrals,' 61.

Pageants. Archceologia, xxxi. 207 ; Archceo- logia Cantiana, xii. 34.

St. Lo, church now desecrated. H. Gaily Knight, in his 'Architectural Tour in Nor- mandy' (1836), p. 123, gives an interesting account of the reason why it was dedicated to the English martyr.

Seals. Archceologia, x. 386 ; xi. 87 ; xvi. 339 ; xxvi. 298.

Sens Cathedral, chapel and picture. [J. R. Best] 'Four Years in France,' 197; A. J. C. Hare, ' South-Eastern France,' 5.

Stained glass. "Gentleman's Magazine Library": ' Ecclesiology,' 147; Archceologia, ix. 368 ; x. 50, 334.

Verona, church dedicated to. Webb, ' Continental Ecclesiology,' 255 ; Archceologia Cantiana, x. 24.

Venice, St. Sylvester, picture. Webb, 'Continental Ecclesiology,' 293.

Venice, St. Zaccaria, picture. Ibid., 284.

Well. Mackinlay, 'Folk-lore of Scottish Lochs and Springs,' 146.

Worcester Cathedral, chapel in. Foxe, ' Acts and Monuments,' iii. 235.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Rirton-in-Lindsey.

Messrs. Traill and Mann's 'Social England,' vol. i. of illustrated edition, pp. 375 and 393, gives reproductions of an illumination of the martyrdom, probably early fifteenth century, in MS. Jul. A. xi. ; of a restored drawing from the painting on wood in Canterbury Cathedra] ; of the beautiful reliquary in Limoges enamel, belonging to Hereford Cathedral ; of the glass medallion in Canter- bury Cathedral showing the shrine ; of Becket's grace cup, now belonging to the Duke of Norfolk, the Howards having

received it from Queen Katherine of Aragon ; and of his vestments at Sens.

There is a vigorous drawing by Matthew Paris, with Ed ward Grim holding the crosier, in MS. C.C.C. Camb. XXVI.

A sculptured representation of the martyr- dom, over the south door of Bayeux Cathedral, dates from about twenty years after St. Thomas's death.

The three surviving thirteenth -century windows in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, close to the site of the shrine, are entirely devoted to depicting the miracles of the martyr.

The beautiful window, 1330 or thereabouts, of St. Lucy's Chapel in the south transept of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, contains a representation of the martyrdom, the head of the saint having been knocked out and replaced with white glass. Also in the library of Trinity College (a legacy from the monastic Durham College, which occupied the same site before the Dissolution) may be seen among the charming fifteenth-century glass the cracked figure of Becket, with the fragment of Fitzurse's dagger sticking in the forehead.

The only contemporary portrait appears to be the figure on his archiepiscopal seal ; but a mosaic in the cathedral of Monreale, Sicily, is known to have been completed under the superintendence of King William II. the Good, who married in 1177 Joan, daughter of Henry II. and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

St. Thomas's Hospital in Southwark is, perhaps, the most splendid memorial of the martyr ; and at the Dissolution the Mercers' Company erected their hall and chapel on the site of the Beckets' old house in Cheapside, which had been transformed by the arch- bishop's sister into a hospital, to be served by canons who were also knights of the Order of St. Thomas of Acre.

Anciently the festival of the Holy Trinity was kept on different days in different parts of Christendom. Becket, when archbishop, ordered that it should henceforth be kept in England upon the first Sunday after Pente- cost, the day of his consecration, and in 1333 the whole Western Church adopted the English usage.

Many of our older churches, now nomin- ally dedicated to St. Thomas the Apostle, are in reality dedicated to St. Thomas of Canter- bury. The ancient church of St. Thomas the Martyr in Oxford, close to the G.W.R. station, apparently was originally dedicated to St. Nicholas, a dedication which was revived when Henry VIII. dethroned the 'oriner saint. It appertained to Oseney