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...E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all. Queen Lucia (first published in 1920) was the first of Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels of which there were six. This first book is a comedy of manners based in...

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...umber of financial scandals in the Church of England including those of Rochester, where the endowments which should have supported the King’s School Canterbury had been diverted to the Dean and Chapter; and of the hospital of St Cross at Winchester where the Rev. Francis North, later the Earl of Guildford, had been appointed to the mastership of the hospital by his father...

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...auncelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him unto Winchester, and there he took the Queen Guenever, and said plainly that he would wed her which was his uncle?s wife and his father?s wife....

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...ether, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him ... ...oul, would never trust to come in his hands again. Then came the Bishop of Canterbury, the which was a noble clerk and an holy man, and thus he said t... ...rgulist wise that might be done. And then Sir Mordred sought the Bishop of Canterbury, for to have slain him. Then the Bishop fled, and took part of h... ...saw Sir Bedivere he knew him well, for he was but little to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, that Sir Mordred flemed. Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there ... ...ore. So there bode Sir Bedivere with the hermit that was to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, and there Sir Bedivere put upon him poor clothes, and served th... ...was buried there, that the hermit bare witness that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury, but yet the hermit knew not in certain that he was verily the b... ...HAPTER X How Sir Launcelot came to the hermitage where the Arch- bishop of Canterbury was, and how he took the habit on him B ut sithen I find you thu... ...ith great devotion. And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion. And Sir Launcelot ... ... with great devotion. And then at leisure they went all with the Bishop of Canterbury to his hermitage, and there they were together more than a month...

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...L OF WESTMORELAND : (WESTMORELAND:) EARL OF WARWICK : (WARWICK:) BISHOP OF CANTERBURY : (CANTERBURY:) BISHOP OF ELY : (ELY:) EARL OF CAMBRIDGE : ... ... I: London. An ante chamber in the KING’S palace. [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY.] CANTERBURY: My lord, I’ll tell you; ... ... it out of farther question. ELY: But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? CANTERBURY: It must be thought on. If it pass against us, We lose the be... ...housand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill. ELY: This would drink deep. CANTERBURY: ’Twould drink the cup and all. ELY: But what ... ...RY: ’Twould drink the cup and all. ELY: But what prevention? CANTERBURY: The king is full of grace and fair regard. ELY: And a true ... ...is full of grace and fair regard. ELY: And a true lover of the holy church. CANTERBURY: The courses of his youth promised it not. The breath no soon... ... at once As in this king. ELY: We are blessed in the change. CANTERBURY: Hear him but reason in divinity, And all admiring with an in... ...ike the summer grass, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. CANTERBURY: It must be so; for miracles are ceased; And therefore we mus... ...on of this bill Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty Incline to it, or no? CANTERBURY: He seems indifferent, Or rather swaying ...

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...US: CAPUCIUS: Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER: Archbishop of Canterbury. DUKE OF NORFOLK : (NORFOLK:) DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM : (BUCKINGH... ... silver wands; next them, two Scribes, in the habit of doctors; after them, CANTERBURY alone; after him, LINCOLN, Ely, Rochester, and Saint Asaph; ne... ...ere. KING HENRY VIII : I then moved you, My Lord of Canterbury; and got your leave To make this present summons: unsolicited ... ...OMWELL: That Cranmer is return’d with welcome, Install’d lord archbishop of Canterbury. CARDINAL WOLSEY : That’s news indeed. CROMWELL: ... ... her business? First Gentleman : That I can tell you too. The Archbishop Of Canterbury, accompanied with other Learned and reverend fathers of his or... ...utly. Then rose again and bow’d her to the people: When by the Archbishop of Canterbury She had all the royal makings of a queen; As holy oil, Edward ... ...e archbishop, As you commanded me. KING HENRY VIII : Ha! Canterbury? DENNY: Ay, my good lord. KING HENRY VIII : ’Tis true... ...: Pray you, arise, My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury. Come, you and I must walk a turn together; I have news to tel... ...ongues Than I myself, poor man. KING HENRY VIII : Stand up, good Canterbury: Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted In us, thy friend: give...

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...34 Scribes in the habite of Doctors; after them, the Bishop of 1335 Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincolne, Ely, 1336 Rochest... ...re running heere. 1586 Kin. I then mou’d you, 1587 My Lord of Canterbury, and got your leaue 1588 To make this present Summons vnsoli... ... Cranmer is return’d with welcome; 2312 Install’d Lord Arch- byshop of Canterbury. 2313 Card. That’s Newes indeed. 2314 Crom. Last... ...inesse? 2405 1 That I can tell you too. The Archbishop 2406 Of Canterbury, accompanied with other 2407 Learned, and Reuerend Fathers o... ... againe, and bow’d her to the people: 2507 When by the Arch- byshop of Canterbury, 2508 She had all the Royall makings of a Queene; 2509 A... ...ord the Arch- byshop, 2868 As you commanded me. 2869 King. Ha? Canterbury? 2870 Den. I my good Lord. 2871 King. ’Tis true:... ...es, 2911 Then I my selfe, poore man. 2912 King. Stand vp, good Canterbury, 2913 Thy Truth, and thy Integrity is rooted 2914 In vs ... .... Exit Ladie. [ Scena Secunda. 2988 Enter Cranmer, Archbyshop of Canterbury. 2989 Cran. I hope I am not too late, and yet the Gentle... ... Butts. There my Lord: 3021 The high promotion of his Grace of Canterbury, 3022 Who holds his State at dore ’mongst Purseuants, 3023 ...

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...of the Round Table were ordained and their sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury. W hen King Arthur heard of the coming of Guenever and the hundr... ...il twenty and eight knights, but no more he could find. Then the Bishop of Canterbury was fetched, and he blessed the sieges with great royalty and de...

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..., and many weened to have been king. Then Merlin went to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and counselled him for to send for all the lords of the realm, ... ... put it off in a delay till the feast of Pentecost. Then the Archbishop of Canterbury by Merlin’s providence let purvey then of the best knights that ... ...own a jesseraunt of double mail, and there went with him the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Sir Baudwin of Britain, and Sir Kay, and Sir Brastias: thes... ...ven hun- dred knights. And Arthur, Ban, and Bors, with the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, and Sir Ector, Kay’s father, they were in a place covered with ...

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...me into his life and swayed him for longer and shorter periods. He went to Canterbury and came under the influence of Gothic architecture. There was a... ... of Bell Harry tower from the school buildings. He was stirred to read the Canterbury Tales, but he could not get on with Chaucer’s old-fashioned Engl... ...e Wife of Bath very much. He would have liked to have known that woman. At Canterbury, too, he first to his knowledge saw Americans. His shop did a go... ... We want just the Big Simple Things of the place, just the Broad Elemental Canterbury praposition. What is it saying to us? I want to get right hold o... ..., finding them full of an indescribable flavour. “Just the Broad Elemental Canterbury praposition,” he would repeat…. He would try to imagine Parsons ... ...ri- cans. For his own part he knew himself to be altogether in- adequate…. Canterbury was the most congenial situation Mr. Polly ever found during the... ... gifted, the born hustlers, the young men who meant to get on. He left the Canterbury place very regretfully. He and an- other commercial gentleman to... ...t walk to Can- terbury, and found themselves remorselessly locked out. The Canterbury employer was an amiable, religious-spir- ited man and he would p... ...no lune-attic power to alter that.” It proved impossible to explain to the Canterbury employer that this was not a highly disrespectful and blasphemou...

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... King’s palace, on the ground now occupied by the beau tiful cathedral of Canterbury. Sebert, the King’s nephew, built on a muddy marshy place near ... ...on of the handsome boy king Edwy, it was remarked by Odo, Arch bishop of Canterbury (who was a Dane by birth), that the King quietly left the corona... ...f the rigid or der called the Benedictines. He made himself Archbishop of Canterbury, for his greater glory; and exercised such power over the neighb... ...King. He was a priest, and a brave one. For twenty days, the Archbishop of Canterbury A Child’s Histroy of England 42 defended that city against its ... ...country; he destroyed innumerable lives. At length Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, with other represen tatives of the clergy and the people, went... ... and jewels. Possessed of this wealth, he soon persuaded the Archbishop of Canterbury to crown him, and became William the Second, King of England. Ru... ...gn priest and a good man, Arch A Child’s Histroy of England 72 bishop of Canterbury. But he no sooner got well again than he repented of his repenta... ...e knew that as soon as Anselm was gone, he could begin to store up all the Canterbury money again, for his own use. By such means, and by taxing and o... ..., however, whom Henry had invited back from abroad, and made Archbishop of Canterbury, was steadfast in the King’s cause; and it was so well supported...

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...iginal wills of all persons leaving effects within the immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries, should be an accidental build- ing, ... ...strous. That, perhaps, in short, this Prerogative Office of the diocese of Canterbury was altogether such a pestilent job, and such a pernicious absur... ...nd leering at us like a mask. We sat there, talking about our pleasant old Canterbury days, an hour or two. Mr. Wickfield, left to Agnes, soon became ... ... grass, looking after him, as if they had been written to about him by the Canterbury rooks, and were observing him closely in con- sequence. David C... ... who had been helping us all, out of the wash-hand-stand jug, replied: To Canterbury. In fact, my dear Copperfield, I have entered into arrangements,... ...ark- able head-voice, and will commence as a cho- rister. Our residence at Canterbury, and our local connexion, will, no doubt, enable him to take adv... ...usiness I had to transact there, and slept there one night, I walked on to Canterbury early in the morning. It was now winter again; and the fresh, co... ... and the sweeping downland, bright- ened up my hopes a little. Coming into Canterbury, I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that c... ...nd I exchanged greetings. You stay with us, Trotwood, while you remain in Canterbury? said Mr. Wickfield, not without a glance at Uriah for his appr...

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...n Alphegius, who was then Bishop of Winchester, but was made Archbishop of Canterbury, and died a holy martyr. “Then,” said Sister Avice, “there was a... ...oul were in his purse, For in his purse he should yfurnished be. —Chaucer, Canterbury Pilgrims. FIVE YEARS had passed since Grisell had been received ... ... new traveller. I have been in my time to all our shrines—to St. Thomas of Canterbury, to St. Winifred’s Well, aye, and, moreover, to St. James of Com... ... James, and at Coleine, She could moche of wandering by the way. —Chaucer, Canterbury Pilgrims. GRISELL FOUND HERSELF brought into a hall where a stou... ...s castle of Sendal, and there merrily kept Christmas, but on St. Thomas of Canterbury’s Day they heard that the foe were close at hand, many thousands...

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...h’s family, I should insist—” “Insist upon my leaving England,” said Mrs. Westgate. “No, not that. I want to go to the National Gallery again; I want ... ...liked to see the castle,” said Bessie. “But now we must leave England,” she added. Her sister looked at her. “You will not wait to go to the National ...

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...ore me all day. I have associated it, ever since, with the sunny street of Canterbury, dozing as it were in the hot light; and with the sight of its o... ..., as she offered none, and we conversed on other subjects until we came to Canterbury, where, as it was market-day, my aunt had a great opportunity of... ...rs in spite of myself? Suppose some of the boys had seen me coming through Canterbury, wayworn and ragged, and should find me out? What would they say... ...hile I was yet new at Doctor Strong s, she made several excursions over to Canterbury to see me, and always at unseasonable hours: with the view, I su... ...ere and that he never should forget the agreeable hours they had passed in Canterbury. He proposed me af- terwards; and he, and Mrs. Micawber, and I, ... ...ad in Macbeth. Who is this young butcher? He is the terror of the youth of Canterbury. There is a vague belief abroad, that the beef suet with which h... ...pledge to write three times a week and faithfully report myself. I went to Canterbury first, that I might take leave of Agnes and Mr. Wickfield (my ol... ... assuredly not stopped in its growth by this little incident out- side the Canterbury coach. It was in vain to take refuge in gruffness of speech. I s... ...e here? said Steerforth, clapping me on the shoulder. I came here by the Canterbury coach, today. I have been adopted by an aunt down in that part o...

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...Exit. Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 37 Enter the two Bishops of Canterbury and Ely. 38 Bish.Cant. 39 My Lord, Ile tell you... ... Westmerland, and Exeter. 145 King. Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury? 146 Exeter. Not here in presence. 147 King. S...

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... marry- ing a very silly pretty young woman, who kept a ladies’- school at Canterbury. She had six hundred pounds to her fortune, which the Captain la...

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...e, and went on my way refreshed. I came to a comfortable— looking inn near Canterbury. It was bright with creepers, and the landlady was a clean old w... ...y other particulars learnt she had never 29 H. G . Wells been to London. “Canterbury’s as far as ever I been,” she said. “I’m not one of your gad-abo... ...moon! Practically I’ve thrown my life away! That old woman in the inn near Canterbury had better sense.” I looked up, and stopped in mid-sentence. The... ... Cavor, and in his shirt sleeves working at the sphere, and walking out to Canterbury be- cause he was afraid to come! Me? I did not believe it. I sti...

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... Hereditary Grand Diaperer, who passed it to the Lord High Admiral of England, who passed it to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who passed it to the Fir... ...en a sudden flush invaded his face and he hurriedly hustled the things back into the hands of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury with an astounded look an... ...n acts of theirs—rather a form, and yet not wholly a form, since there was no Protector as yet. The Archbishop of Canterbury made report of the decree... ...settled down upon his spirits and upon his remorseful heart. At last the final act was at hand. The Archbishop of Canterbury lifted up the crown of En...

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...ether, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him ... ...oul, would never trust to come in his hands again. Then came the Bishop of Canterbury, the which was a noble clerk and an holy man, and thus he said t... ...rgulist wise that might be done. And then Sir Mordred sought the Bishop of Canterbury, for to have slain him. Then the Bishop fled, and took part of h... ...saw Sir Bedivere he knew him well, for he was but little to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, that Sir Mordred flemed. Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there ... ...ore. So there bode Sir Bedivere with the hermit that was to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, and there Sir Bedivere put upon him poor clothes, and served th... ...was buried there, that the hermit bare witness that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury, but yet the hermit knew not in certain that he was verily the b... ...HAPTER X How Sir Launcelot came to the hermitage where the Arch- bishop of Canterbury was, and how he took the habit on him B ut sithen I find you thu... ...ith great devotion. And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion. And Sir Launcelot ... ... with great devotion. And then at leisure they went all with the Bishop of Canterbury to his hermitage, and there they were together more than a month...

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...ks, and there was an interchange between them of “Blind Harry “and of the “Canterbury Tales”, as they rode side by side, some- times making their comp... ...a very little of the Latin. ‘This you can read,’ said Henry, producing the Canterbury Tales; ‘the fair minstrelsy of my Lady of Suffolk’s grandsire.’ ... ...o or three days of entertainment at every castle, and then a long delay at Canterbury to give time for Suffolk’s retainers, and all the heralds, pursu...