such goods, fruites, and possessions, as had bene taken a way before from the archbishopricke, should be restored at his comming agayne into England. &c.

MarginaliaAnselme returneth into England.Thus Anselmus the stout champion of poperye and superstition, after this victory gotten vpon the king, for the which he so longe fought: with ioy and triumphe sayleth into England, hauing all his popishe requestes obtayned. MarginaliaPriestes driuen againe from their wiues.Where first, he flieth lyke a Lyon vpon þ^e maried priestes, contrary to the woord of God, diuorsing & punishing that by mans authoritie, which the eternall and almighty God had coupled. Next he looketh to thē, which did hold any church by farme vnder the king. Agaynst Symony likewyse, and agaynst them that maryed within the seuenth degree, he proceedeth wyth hys full pontificall authority.

Marginalia1106.Shortly, after, as king Henry had finished hys war in Normandie, and with victorye returned agayne into England, about the sixt yeare of hys raygne: Anselme Archbishop of Canterburye (by the permission of the king) assembled a great councel at Westminster in Lōdon, of the clergy and prelates of England.

In the whiche (by the byshop of Romes autoritie) he so wrought with the king, that at length, albeit (as þ^e story sayth not without great difficultie) it was newly confirmed & enacted: that no temporall man after that day, should Make inuesture with crosse or with ryng, or with pastorall hoke. In this councel sondry and diuers iniunctions were gyuen forth to priestes & deacons: as diuers other sinodall actes also by the same Anselme had bene concluded in other councels before. And because here falleth in mention of the Actes Sinodall concluded in the tyme of this Anselme: I thought here good to packe thē all and in one general heape together, as I finde them in Malmesbery, and in other sondry autors scateryngly recited.

MarginaliaEx lib. Gulie. de gestis pontific. lib. 1.
Ex Iornalēsi. et alijs.The first thyng decreed by this Anselme, in his sinodall councels, was touching the fault of Simonie: wher by diuers both byshops & abbotes (as is aforesayd) were at the same time deposed. And lay mē forbyd to conferre any ecclesiasticall promocion.

Also it was decred, þ^t no bishop should beare any office in secular mens busines or metyngs. MarginaliaPriestlye apparell.And that such should no go appareled as the lay men dyd, but should haue their vestures decent, and mete for religious persons. And þ^t in all places they should neuer go without some to beare witnes of their conuersation.

MarginaliaArchdeacōries not to be farmed.Itē, that no archdeaconries should be let out to ferme.

Item, that no archdeacon should be vnder the degree of a deacon.

MarginaliaMariage of priestes forbidden.Item, that archdeacon, priest, deacon, subdeacon, colligener, nor chanō, should frō thence forth mary a wife, nor yet kepe her, if he had bene maried to one before.

Item, that euery subdeacon, beyng vnder the degree of a chanon (after the profession of chastitie, maryeng a wife) should be subiect to the same rule.

They ordeyned also that a priest kepyng company with his wife, should be reputed vnlawfull: and that he should say no Masse: and if he sayd Masse, it should not be hard.

MarginaliaVow of chastitie brought in.They charged that none were admitted to orders frō that tyme forward, from the degree of a subdeacon, vnlesse he must professe chastitie.

MarginaliaBenefices not to goe by heritage.That priestes sonnes should not clayme by heretage the benefices of their fathers, as þ^e custome had alwayes bene before.

Item, that no spirituall person should sit in any secular office: as to be procurators or iudges of blood.MarginaliaHow then was Steuen Gardener Lord chauncelor in Quene Maries tyme.

Item, that priestes should not resort to tauernes, or banquets, nor sit drinkyng by the fire side.

That, the garmentes of priestes should be of one colour, and that their shoes should be decent.

Item, that monkes or any other of the clergie (if theyforsoke their order) either to come agayne, or to be excommunicate.

MarginaliaPristes crownes.Item, that men of the clergie should weare broade crownes.

MarginaliaTythes.Item, that no tythes should be geuen, but to þ^e church.

MarginaliaByeng of prebendes.Item, þ^t no churches or prebendes should be bought.

MarginaliaBuilding of chappells.That no new chapels should be made without consent of the bishop.

MarginaliaEuery churche to fynd hys own priest.That no church should be halowed, before necessary prouision were made for the priest, and for the church to be maynteyned.

MarginaliaAbbots to maintaine no warre.That abbotes should set forth no men to warre, and that they must both sleape & eate, in the same house with their monkes, vnlesse some great necessitie do let.

MarginaliaMonkes limited in geuing penance.Item, that monkes do inioyne no penance to any mā without the knowledge of his abbot. And that their abbotes may geue no licence therin, but onely for such persons whose charge they haue of soule.

MarginaliaMonkes no godfathers nor nunnes godmothers.That no monkes should be Godfathers: Nor nūnes Godmothers.

MarginaliaAbbey landes.That monkes should haue no Lordships to ferme.

MarginaliaImproperations restreyned.Item, that monkes should take no churches but by the bishop, neither should so spoile and oppresse the churches geuen to them, with the rentes, that sufficiēt were not left for the ministers of the same.

MarginaliaPriuye contractes.That priuie contract betwen man and woman without witnes should not stand, but be frustrate if eche partie do go from the contract.

MarginaliaRoundingsItē, that such as weare long heyr of the clergie, be so rounded, that part of their eare appeare, and that their eyes be not couered.

MarginaliaMariage within the vii. degree restrayned.Item, that there be no matrimonial copulation, within the vij. degree of kindered: nor so to continue if they be maried, but the mariage to be broken. And if any beyng priuie to that incest, do not detect the same, he to be gilty of the same crime.

MarginaliaBuryings.Item, that no funerall or buryengs be without their owne parish church, so that the priest therof do lose that which to to hym is dewe.

MarginaliaNo holines to be geuen to shrynes and places.Item, that no man vpon any newfangled rashnes, do attribute any reuerence or opinion of holynes, to dead mens bodies: to fountaines, or to any other thing (as the vse hath bene in tyme past) without autoritie of þ^e bishop.

MarginaliaSelling and byeng of men.Item, that no byeng and sellyng be vsed hereafter in England of men, as of other cattell.

MarginaliaSodomitrieItem, after the restreinte of priestes mariage: when filthy Sodomitrie began to come in the place therof, thē were they forced also, to make an acte for that, which was this.

MarginaliaA flap with a foxe tayle for Sodomitrye.With a greuous curse we condemne both them that occupie the vngracious vice of Sodomitrie, and them also that wyllingly assiste them, or be wicked doers with thē in the same: til such time, as they may deserue absolution by penaunce and confession.

So that what so euer he be, that is noysed or proued to be of this wickednes (if he be a religious person) he shall from thence forth be promoted, to no degree of honour: and þ^t which he hath, shalbe taken from hym.

If he be a lay person, he shalbe depriued of all hys fredome within the land, and be no better then a forener.

And because it shalbe knowen, the absolution of such as be secular to belong onely to bishops, it was therfore enacted: that on euery sonday, in euery parish church of Englād the sayd excōmunicatiō should be published. &c.

But marke in this great matter what followed. For as Ranulphys Cestrēsis witnesseth: MarginaliaRanulph. Cestrēsis. Lib. 7.this greuous generall curse was soone called backe agayne, by the sute of certayne: which perswaded Anselme, that the publication or opening of that vice, gaue kindlings to the same in the hartes of lewde persons: ministring occasion of more boldnes to them to do the like: MarginaliaNote the preposterous proceding of Anselme in ceasing the vice of Sodomitrie.And so to stop the occasion of filthy Sodomitrye, the publication thereof