PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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BECKET THE CUP THE FALCON THE PROMISE OF MAY
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL OF SELBORNE.
_To you, the honoured Chancellor of our own day, I dedicate this dramatic memorial of your great predecessor;--which, altho' not intended in its present form to meet the exigencies of our modern theatre, has nevertheless--for so you have assured me--won your approbation.
HENRY II. (_son of the Earl of Anjou_). THOMAS BECKET, _Chancellor of England, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury_. GILBERT FOLIOT, _Bishop of London_. ROGER, _Archbishop of York_. _Bishop of Hereford_. HILARY, _Bishop of Chichester_. JOCELYN, _Bishop of Salisbury_. JOHN OF SALISBURY | HERBERT OF BOSHAM | _friends of Becket_. WALTER MAP, _reputed author of 'Golias,' Latin poems against the priesthood_. KING LOUIS OF FRANCE. GEOFFREY, _son of Rosamund and Henry_. GRIM, _a monk of Cambridge_. SIR REGINALD FITZURSE | SIR RICHARD DE BRITO | _the four knights of the King's_ SIR WILLIAM DE TRACY | _household, enemies of Becket_. 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 (divorced from Louis of France)_. ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD. MARGERY.
_A Castle in Normandy. Interior of the Hall. Roofs of a City seen thro' Windows_.
HENRY. So then our good Archbishop Theobald Lies dying.
BECKET. I am grieved to know as much.
Arthur Conan Doyle
