Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] · New Haven, Conn., Pub. for the author by J. H. Bradley · leaf 378
the clergy, as they had become very corrupt intheir morals, but he was violently opposed byThomas a Becket, an Archbishop of his court.Some of his knights, thinking to serve the king,assassinated a Becket, before the altar of the cathe-dral. Henry, to avert the resentment of the pope,did penance at… … THIRTEENTH CENTURY. The formidable tribunal of the Inquisition was establishedby Pope Innocent III. in 1204, for the examination and pun-ishment of heretics. 1215, Magna Chartat the bulwark ofEnglish liberty, signed by King John. 1858, Bagdat taken bythe Tartars, end of the Saracen Empire. 1291,…
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