What Became of the Bones of St Thomas?
A Contribution to his Fifteenth Jubilee

Table of Contents

Part I. The Narratives of the Passion:
1. William of Canterbury
2. William Fitzstephen
Note on the Priory of Dover
3. Benedict
4. John of Salisbury
5. Edward Grim
6. Garnier de Pont St Maurice
Notes
Part II. The Tomb and the Shrine
Section 1. The Tomb
Section 2. The Translation:
7. The 'Polistorie'
8. Appendix ad quadrilogum
9. Thómas Saga Erkibyskups
10. Matthew Paris
11. Annals of Waverley
12. Annals of Dunstable
13. Higden's 'Polychronicon'
14. Robert of Gloucester
Section 3. The Shrine and the Head:
15. Schassek
16. Tetzel of Nuremberg
17. Erasmus's 'Peregrinato Religionis ergo'
18. Madame de Montreuil
Notes
Part III. The Destruction of the Shrine:
19. The King's letter for taking away shrines and images
20. Commission for taking down St Richard's Shrine at Chichester
21. Commission for taking down the Shrine of St Hugh at Lincoln
22. Destruction of St Cuthbert's Shrine at Durham
23. Shrine of St William at York
24. Paul III's bull of excommunication against Henry VIII
25. R. Pole's denuntiation
26. N. Harpsfield's accusation
27. Archbishop Parker's account
28. The King's Proclamation, Nov. 16, 1538
29. the King's Letter to the Justices, December, 1538
30. C. Wriothesley's Chronicle
31. Stow's Chronicle and Annales
32. Holinshed's Chronicle
33. Payment for 'disgarnisshinge' of the shrine
34. Letters of J. Husee
35. And of T. Wriothesley and others
36. Official Denial of the burning of St Thomas's bones
37. W. Thomas's Pellegrino Inglese
38. John Bale
Note: the alleged posthumous trial of St Thomas
Part IV. The Supposed Discovery of the Bones:
39. Report of the Committee
40. Miss A. Holland's letters
41. Mr W. P. Thornton's account of the bones
42. Other items of evidence
Conclusion
Index
Frontispiece: the skull found in 1888
Plan of the monastery of Christ Church in Canterbury.