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William was personally acquainted with Becket, when there was little probability of his ever becoming a confessor, martyr and saint, endeavoring to discover a motive for the munificence of the Scottish King, continues to say:
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Perhaps it was meant as a public declaration that he did not ascribe his disaster at Alnwick to the ill-will of his old friend. He may, perhaps, have been hurried by the torrent of popular prejudices into the belief that his disaster proceeded from the partiality of Becket towards the penitent Henry; and he might imagine that if equal honors were done in Scotland to the new saint as in England he might, on future occasions, observe a neutrality.