Folliot also says, that all the bishops were resolved obstinately to oppose the Constitutions of Clarendon, but the primate himself betrayed them from timidity, and led the way to their subscribing.
This is contrary to the testimony of all the historians, and directly contrary to Beeket's character, who surely was not destitute either of courage or of zeal for ecclesiastical immunities.4.The violence and injustice of Henry, ascribed to him by Fitz-Stephens, is of a piece with the rest of the prosecution.

Nothing could be more iniquitous than, after two years' silence, to make a sudden and unprepared demand upon Becket to the amount of forty-four thousand marks, (equal to a sum of near a million in our time,) and not allow him the least interval to bring in his accounts.

If the king was so palpably oppressive in one article, he may be presumed to be equally so in the rest.5.

Though Folliot's letter, or rather manifesto, be addressed to Becket himself, it does not acquire more authority on that account.

We know not what answer was made by Becket; the collection of letters cannot be supposed quite complete.