rage a prince stoute and valiaunt. Then what a shame would he thinke it be to him (as it wer in dede) if he, who in might and dignitie far exceded all his progenitours, shoulde not defend & mainteine the liberties & customes by them procured. Wherfore he desired the pope to see to the matter, so as might stand both with the kynges honour, and also with his owne profite and aduātage: who otherwise no doubt, should lose a great peece of money out of the realme, vnlesse he did remitte some thyng of the seueritie of his canons and lawes decretall.

With these & such other persuasions like to the same effect, the court of Rome was well contented: agreyng that the kyngs request ought with all fauour to be graūted. But the pope and Anselme sate still markyng their doynges. The ambassabour supposing their silence to be halfe a yeldyng to him, added moreouer and sayd: that the kyng, no not for the crown of his realme, would lose the autoritie of Inuestyng or admittyng hys prelates, within his dominion. Wherunto the proude pope aunsweryng agayne, brast out in these wordes: MarginaliaEx Gulio. De gestis pont. lib. 1.
Ex Math. Paris. li. 3.
A proude answere of the pope.Nor I (sayd he) for the price of his head (as thou sayst) will lose the gyuyng of spirituall promocions in England, and confirmyng it with an othe (before God sayth he I speake it) know if for a certain. &c. Then it foloweth in the story of Malmesbery: with this word of the pope, the myndes of the rest were chaunged, saying. Benedicta sit cordis tui cōstantia, benedicta oris tui loquela. The kynges atturney also was therewith dashed: who notwithstandyng yet brought to passe, þ^t certayne of the kings customes vsed before of his father, were released vnto hym. MarginaliaExcōmunicatiō abused.At þ^e which tyme, in the same court was decreed, that (the kyng onely, whiche had inuested them, beyng excepted) the other whiche were inuested by the kyng, to be excommunicated: the absolution and satisfaction of whom was left to Anselme tharchbishop.

Thus Anselme beyng dismissed from Rome, tooke his iorney toward England. But the ambassadour pretendyng to go to S. Nicholas remayned behynde, to see whether he could wynne the popes mynd to the kynges purpose. Which whan he saw it would not be, he ouertaketh Anselmus in the way, at Placentia, and opened to hym the kynges pleasure. MarginaliaAnselme restrayned frō cōming to Englād.
Ex Rodulp. Londinensi.The kyng (sayth he) geueth you in charge and commaundement, that if you wyll come to England and there behaue your selfe to hym, as your prodecessors dyd to his father, you should be receyued and reteyned in the realme accordingly: if not you are wise inough (sayth he) ye know what I meane, and what wyll follow, &c. And so with these wordes parting from him returned agayn to the king. Anselmus remained at Lyons a yeare and an halfe, writyng diuers letters to the kyng after this effect & wordes as followeth.

MarginaliaA letter of Anselm to K. Henry.ALthough ye vnderstande by William Warlwast, what we haue done at Rome: yet I shal shortly shew you þ^t belōgeth to me. Whē I came to Rome, I declared þ^e cause wherfore I came to the lord Pope. He answered that he would not swarue from the statutes of hys predecessors. Furthermore, he cōmaunded me that I should haue no fellowship with them that receyued inuestings of churches at your handes after the knowledge of this prohibition, excepte they woulde do penance and forsake that they had receiued, without hope of recouerye: nor that they shoulde not communicate wyth the other Bishops that had consecrated suche men, excepte they would present themselues to the iudgement of the apostolike sea. The foresayde William can be a witnesse of all these things if he will. This William when we departed asunder (reconing vp in your behalfe the loue and liberalitie which ye haue had alwais towardes me) warned me as your Archbishop, that I should shew my selfsuch a one, that if I would come into England, that I I myght be wyth you as my predecessor was with your father: and ye might entreate me wyth the same honour and liberalitie, that your father entreated my predecessor. By which wordes I vnderstād, that except I would shew my selfe such a one, you would not haue me come into England. For your loue & liberalitie I thanke you: but that I should be with you as my predecessour was with your father, I cannot do it. MarginaliaThe proude stoutnes of a prelate in a wrong cause.For I dare not do homage to you, nor dare communicate wyth them that take inuestings of churches at your handes: bicause of þ^e foresaid inhibition made, I my selfe hearing it. Wherfore I desire you to send me your pleasure herein (yf it please you) whether I may returne into England (as I sayd) wyth your peace and power of myne office.

In the meane whyle, great busines there was, and much postyng went to and fro, betwene the kyng, the Archbishop, and the Pope, but nothyng was done: for neyther woulde the Pope agree to the kyng, neyther woulde the kyng condescende to the Archbishop. MarginaliaAnselme about to excōmunicate the king.At last, the archbishop seing by no meanes he could preuail against the kyng: thought to reuenge himself by excommunication, and so went about the same. The kyng hauing worde therof by the the Countesse Adala his sister, desyreth her to come to hym to Normandye, and bryng Anselmus with her: MarginaliaReconcilemēt made betwene the king and Anselmus.wherupon (through the meanes of þ^e Coūtesse) reconcilement was made, and the Archb. was restored to his former possessions agayne. Onely his returne into Englād was differred, because he would not communicate wyth those whom the kyng had inuested. So the king toke his passage ouer into Englande, & Anselme made hys abode at the abbey of Becke.

MarginaliaAmbassage to Rome.Then were ambassadours agayn directed vnto Rome W. Warlwast, and Baldwyne aboue named abbot of Ramesey: who at length cōcluded the long controuersy betwene the king and the pope, vpon this agremēt: that the king shoulde take homage of the Bishops elect, but should not deale with inuesting them by staffe & ring. &c Whyle the Embassadours were thus in their sute at Rome, diuers complayntes were daylye brought from Englād to Anselme, against þ^e priestes & Chanons: MarginaliaGuliel. Malmesb. li. 1. De gestis pontifi.
Priestes receaued their wyues agayne by the absence of Anselme.who in his absence, contrary to the late councel holden at Lōdon, receaued their wyues vnto their houses agayne, & so were permitted by the king, paying him certaine money for the same. Anselme (the sore enemy agaynst lawfull mariage) agreeued therwith: addresseth his letters vnto the king, requyring him to refrayne frō any more taking of such exactions: MarginaliaThe faultes of ecclesiasticall ministers long to none but to bisdhops to correct, quod Anselme.declaring moreouer and affirming, that the offences of all suche ecclesiasticall Ministers must be corrected by the instance of bishops, & not of lay men. To this the king answereth gentlye agayne by letters, tempering him selfe: how he purposed shortly to come ouer into Normandye, MarginaliaThe king brought vnder the archbish.and if he had done anye thing amis, either in these or other thinges, he would refourme it by his obedience.

It was not long after (the messengers being now returned from Rome) but þ^e king as he had promised, sped him into Normandye: where hee warring agaynst hys brother Robert, brought both him and the countrye of Normandy at last vnder his subiection. But first meeting with Anselmus at þ^e abbey of Becke, he conuented and agreed with him in all such poyntes as the archhyshop required. MarginaliaConditions graunted by the kyng to Anselme.As first, that all his churches which before were made tributarye vnto king William his brother, now should remayne free from all tribute. Item, that he should requyre nothing of the sayd churches or prouinces, in the tyme of the seat being vacant. MarginaliaLawful matrimonye punished.Moreouer, concerning such priestes and Ministers, as had geuen money to the king for their company with their wyues: it was agreed that they should surcease from all ecclesiasticall function, the space of. iij. yeares: and that the king should take no more after such maner. Item, that all