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From a manuscript of Chancer's Canterbury Tales in the British Museum. shrine of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, was medieval pilgrims. The city with its cathedral appears in the background.

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a celebrated resort for

HISTORY

BY

HUTTON WEBSTER, PH.D.

PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

"For the roots of the present lie deep in the past, and nothing
in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the
present comes to be what it is."

WILLIAM STUBBS, Constitutional History of England

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