Word: langton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seaport. Thomas Becket (1162-70), warrior-bishop, first helped Henry II subordinate Church to State. But when he became Archbishop of Canterbury he fought for Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered and mangled him on the very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred the English barons to demand the Magna Carta of John; later (after John's death) he supported the crown against the nobles. Thomas Cranmer (1533-56), himself twice married (first to "Black Joan...
Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton, 67, British complete letter writer, issued a statement last week. Said he to the London Daily Chronicle: "A horrible rumor has reached me that I have written my last letter to 'the newspapers. . . . This rumor is wholly false, as I am now determined to go on writing until I am dead...
Among the most interesting publications will be reprints of two seventeenth century pamphlets, which have recently been found in the Lincoln Cathedral Library. "The Pilgrimage of Robert Langton" is the name of the first, while the second is "A most Friendly Farewell to Sir Francis Drake," by Henry Robarts. These editions will be limited to 755 copies apiece...