Mother of Thomas a Becket.

The well-known romantic legend of the origin of this lady has been introduced into the Pictorial History of England , on the authority of "Brompton in X. Scriptores." And on the same page (552. vol. i.) is a pictorial representation of the "Baptism of the Mother of Becket, from the Royal MS. 2 B. vii." Now, Lord Campbell, in his Lives of the Chancellors , repudiates the story in toto; but without assigning any other reason for doing so, than an inference from the silence of Becket himself and his secretary, Fitzstephen, on the point. Can any of the learned gentlemen, whose distinguished names…