Becket

It so happens that, before seeing, Mr. Venables' communication, with his quotations from the *Monasticon* (Vol. ii., p. 364), I had taken an opportunity of looking into a friend's copy of that work, and had there found what seems to be a key to the origin of the designation "*St. Thomas of Acon* or *Acres*." It is stated, in a quotation from Bp. Tanner, that "The hospital [in Cheapside] consisted of a master and several brethren, professing the rule of St. Austin, but were of a particular order, which was about this time instituted in the Holy Land, viz. *Militiæ Hospitales S. Thomæ Martyris C…