without my sending. And therefore, let him sweare vnto me, that he shall neuer for any greuance, appeale hereafter to the sea of Rome, or els let him voyde my realme.

Agaynst these wordes of the kyng, Anselme thinkyng not best to reply agayne by any message, but by worde of mouth: commyng himselfe personally to the kyng, placeth himselfe (after his order) on the right hande of the prince: where he made his reply vnto the message sent to hym by the kyng. MarginaliaThe answere of Anselme to the kyng.Whereas ye say, I ought not to goe to Rome, eyther for lacke of any trespasse, or for aboundaunce of coūsaile and knowledge in me (albeit I graunt to neither of them as true) yet what the truth is therin, I referre it to the iudgement of God. And where as ye say that I promised to kepe and obserue your customes: that I graunt, but with a condicion: so farre to kepe them, and such of them to obserue, as were consonant to the lawes of God, & ruled with right and equitie. Moreouer, where as ye charge me with breach of my fidelitie and aliegiance: for that contrary to your customes, I appeale to the sea Apostolike (my reuerence and dutie to your soueragintie reserued) if an other would say it, that is vntrue. For the fidelitie and obeysance that I owe to thee (O kyng) I haue it of the fayth and fidelitie of God, whose Vicar S. Peter is: to whose seate I do appeale. MarginaliaNote the hye reasons of Anselme.Farther, whereas ye require me to sweare, that I shal for no cause hereafter at any time appeale to Rome: I pronounce openly, that a Christian prince requireth such an othe of hys Archbishop vniustly. For if I should forsweare S. Peter, I should deny Christ. And when I shall at any tyme deny Christ, then shall I be content and redy to stand to my satisfaction of my transgression to you, for askyng license to go to Rome. And peraduenture when I am gone, the goodes of the church shall not so serue your temporall desires and commodities, as ye wene for. At these wordes of the Bishop, the king and his nobles were not a litle incensed: defending agayne, that in obseruyng the kinges customes, there was neither condicion nor any clause put in, either of God or right. No was, said Anselme? If so be that in your customes was neither mention made of God nor of right, whereof was there mention then? For God forbid that any Christian should be bound to any customes, which go contrary to god and to right? Thus on both sides passed much altercation betwene them. At length, the king after many threatnyng wordes, told hym he should cary nothing out of the realme with hym. Well sayde the bishop, if I may neither haue my horse, nor garmentes with me, then will I walk on foote. MarginaliaThe Byshops left Anselme alone.And so addressed hym toward his iourney (all the other Bishops forsakyng hym) wherof none would take his part: but if he came to them for their counsaile, they said he was wise inough, and neded not their counsaile, as who for his prudence knew best what was to be done, as also for hys holinesse was willing and able to prosecute the same that he dyd know. As for them, they neither durst nor woulde stand agaynst þr kyng their lord: whose fauour they could not lacke, for the perill that might happen both to thēselues, and to their kinrede. But for hym because he was both a straunger, and voyde of such worldly corruptiō in hym: they willed him to go forward as he had begō, their secrete cōsēt he should haue, but their open voyce they would not geue hym. Thus Anselmus remainyng at Douer 15. dayes tarying for the winde: MarginaliaAnselme flying out of England.at last sped hym toward hys passage. But hys packing beyng secretly knowen in the court: the kings officer (Williā Warlwast) preuented hys purpose: MarginaliaAnselme searched by the kings officer for letters.searching by the kinges commaundement all hys trusses, coffers, satchels, sleues, purse, napkin and bosome for letters, and for money, and so let hym passe. Who sayling into France, first rested a while at Lions, from thence came to Rome to cōplayne to Pope Vrbane, accordyng to the tenor & forme of a certayne Epistle of his, wherein among many other thynges in the same Epistle conteined: these woordes, he writeth to Pope Paschalis, the third yeare after hys banishment, after the death of Vrbane, and a little before the death of the kyng.

MarginaliaA fragment or portiō of a letter of Anselme to Pope Paschalis.
Et ex legēs de Anselni. aut. Edmero.
Ex epistol. Ansel. 36.I See in England many euils, whose correction belongeth to me, and which I could neither amend, nor suffer without myne owne fault. The kyng desireth of me, that vnder the name of right I should consent to hys pleasures, which were agaynst the law and wil of God. For he would not haue the pope receaued nor appealed vnto in england, without his cōmaundement: neither that I should send a letter vnto hym, or receaue any from hym: or that I should obey his decrees. He suffered not a Councell to be kept in his realme, now these 13. yeares since he was kyng. In all these thinges and such like, if I asked any coūsaile, all my suffragane byshops of his realme, denied to geue me any counsayle, but accordyng to the kynges pleasure. MarginaliaThe king would not haue the pope receaued, nor appealed vnto in England. Anselme cōplayneth of the king & of his suffragane byshops.After that I saw these and such other thynges, that are done agaynst the wil & law of God: I asked licēce of him to go Rome, vnto the sea Apostolicall, that I might there take coūsayle for my soule, and the office committed to me. The kyng sayd, that I offended agaynst hym for the onely askyng of licēce: And propounded to me, that either I should make hym amendes for the same as a trespas (assuryng hym neuer to aske this license any more nor to appeale to the pope at any tyme hereafter) or els þ^t I should quickly depart out of his land. Wherfore chosing rather to go out of the land, then to agree to so wicked a thyng: I came to Rome, as ye know, and declared the whole matter to the Lord pope. The kyng by and by (as soone, as I went out of England) inuaded the whole Archbishoprike, and turned it to hys owne vse: taxyng the monkes onely with bare meate, drinke, & clothe. MarginaliaThe kyng contemneth the popes warning.The kyng beyng warned and desired of the Lord Pope to amende this, he contemned the same: and yet continueth in his purpose still. And now is the thyrd yeare since I came thus out of England, and more. Some men not vnderstandyng, demaunde why I do not excommunicate the kyng. But the wiser sorte, and such as haue vnderstandyng coūsayle me, that I do not this thyng: because it belongeth not to me both to complayne, and to punish. To conclude, I was forewarned by my frendes that are vnder the king, that my excommunication (if it should be done) would be laughed to scorne and despised. &c.

By these here aboue prefixed, appeareth how Anselme the Archbishop commyng to Rome, made his complaynt to Pope Vrbane of the kyng: and how the Pope writyng to the kyng in the behalfe of Anselme: his letters and commaundementes were despised. And now to our story. In the meane time while the Popes letters were sent to the king, Anselme was byd to wayt about the Pope to looke for aūswere backe. Who perceauyng (at lēgth) how litle the kyng reputed the Popes letters, began to be wery of his office: desideryng the Pope, that he might be discharged therof. But the Pope in no case would therto consent, chargyng hym vpon his obedience, that where soeuer he went, he should beare with hym the name and honour of the Archbyshop of Cant. Whereunto, Anselmus agayne sayd: his obedience, he neither durst nor would refuse, as who for Gods cause was ready to suffer, what soeuer should happē (yea though it were death it selfe) as he thought no lesse would follow therof. But what should we thinke (sayth he) is there to be done, where not onely iustice taketh no place, but is vtterly oppressed: and where as my suffraganes not onely do not helpe (for drede) the ryghtous cause: but also for fauour do impugne the same. Well (sayth the Pope) as touchyng these matters, we shall sufficiently prouide for at the next councell at Baron: where as I will you the same tyme and place to be present.

MarginaliaConcilium Baronense.
Anselme and his successours of Cant. placed at the right foote of the pope in generall counsels.When the tyme of the councell was come, Anselme among other was called for. Who first sittyng in an vtter side of the Byshops, afterward was placed at the right foote of the Pope with these wordes: Includamus hunc in orbe nostro tanq̃ alterius orbis papam. Wherupon, the same place after him was appointed to the successors of the sea of Cāt. (in euery generall Councell by the decree of Vrbane) to sit at the right foote of the pope. In this coūcel, great sturre & much reasonyng there was agaynst the Grecians, MarginaliaDe processione spiritus sancti.cōcernyng þ^e matter & order of procedyng of þ^e holy Ghost. MarginaliaThe difference betwene the Greek church & the Latine.Where is to be noted, that the Greeke Church, hath of long tyme dissented from the Latin Church in many & sondry pointes, to the number of xx. or almost of xxix. Articles, as I haue them collected out of the Register of the Church of Hereford. Wherof, lyke as occasiō hereafter may serue (God willyng) for a further & more ample tractation to be made: so here by þ^e way partly I mynde to touch some. The first is.

MarginaliaEx Registro Eccles. Herefordensis.THe first Article wherin the Greek Church altereth frō the Latin or Romish Church is this, Quòd sunt extra obedientiam Romanæ ecclesiæ, pro eo quod ecclesia Constantinopolitana non est subiecta, sed ei æqualis.

1. Dicunt Dominum Apostolicum non habere maiorem potestatem, q̃ iiij. Patriarchæ. Et quicquid sit præter scientiā eorum per Papam, vel sine eorum approbatione, nullius est valoris. &c. In English. First they are not vnder the obedi-