Note 31 — EDITOR'S PREFACE.
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Yet Theobald, according to John of Salisbury, designed Becket for his successor,—
"hunc (i. e. Becket Cancellarium) successurum sibi sperat et orat, Hic est carnificum qui jus cancellat iniquum, Quos habuit reges Anglia capta diu, Esse putans reges, quos est perpessa, tyrannos Plus veneratur eos, qui nocuere magis."
Entheticus, l. 1295.
Did Becket decide against the Norman laws by the Anglo-Saxon? Has any one guessed the meaning of the rest of John's verses on the Chancellor and his Court? I confess myself baffled.