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Henry II being scourged for his part in the death of Thomas Becket
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'And there was shown us the middle joint of a
man's finger. ... He told me it was St Peter's.... I then took notice
of the bigness of the joint which was large enough to be taken for that
of a giant.
Upon which, said I, Peter must needs have been
a very lusty man! At this, one of the compnay fell a laughing, I was
much vexed at it, for if he had held his tonger the verger would have
shewn us all the relics.
However we pacified him pretty well, by giving
him a few groats.'
Erasmus at Walsingham
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