Word: becket
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...John Harvard was baptized in 1607, and his father, Robert Harvard, was buried in 1625. The view of the section of the town of Southwark contains the church and the Priory of St. Saviour's and the Winchester House and London Bridge in the seventeenth century. The Thomas a Becket Chapel and the Woods Tower can also be seen, together with many other old and historic places...
...series to be produced in this country and marked the beginning of those extraordinary successes that all remember. The cast will include Mr. Wooley as Sir Joseph Porter, Mr. Murray as Capt. Corcoran, Mr. Wolff as Dick Deadeye, while Messrs. Read and Jones will be the two sailors, Bob Becket and Bill Bobstay. Miss Lane should make a charming Josephine; there being a double bill Miss Mason will alternate with her in this role. Miss Ladd is to be the Hebe, while the blithsome Buttercup will have a worthy exponent in Miss Leighton...
...Becket justified in his opposition to Henry...
...possessed the right to punish for crime all accused persons who could prove their right to the "benefit of the clergy" by reading a passage from the Bible. As late as the sixteenth century, a clerk in orders could be only branded for murder. The well-known story of Becket's struggle against Henry shows the power that the church possessed...
...deep marshes around the spot formerly were entirely under water, leaving the "Isle" high and dry. The ruins here are beautiful. Iona and Tyne Mouth were illustrated and the course of the lecture led to Canterbury. The views of this cathedral were numerous. The place here where Thomas a Becket was murdered by the knights was shown. A tablet on the wall commemorates his life and death and a small square stone marks the very spot where he is said to have fallen, The naves of this cathedral are long and high and the view showing the vista between...