MarginaliaThe effect of the oration of W. Warlwast, at the popes court.kinges right of Inuesting. &c. First declared: how England of a long continuance, had euer bene a prouince peculiar to the churche of Rome, & how it payed dewly his yearely tribute vnto the same. Inferring moreouer how þ^e king, as he was of nature very liberall, so also of courage a prince stout and valiaunt. Then what a shame would he thinke it be to hym (as it wer in dede) if he, who in might and dignitie far exceded all his progenitours, shoulde not defend and mainteyne the liberties & customes by thē procured. Wherfore he desired the pope to see to the matter, so as might stād both with the kinges 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 remitt some thyng of the seueritie of his canons & lawes decretall.

With these and such other persuasions lyke to the same effect, the court of Rome was well cōtented: agreyng that the kynges request ought with all fauour to be graunted. But the Pope and Anselme sate still marking their doynges. The ambassabour supposing their silence to be halfe a yelding to hym, added moreouer and sayd: that the kyng, no not for the crowne of hys realme, would lose the autoritie of Inuesting or admitting hys prelates, within hys dominion. Wherunto the proude pope aunswering agayne, brast out in these wordes: MarginaliaEx Gulio. De gestis pont. lib. 1.
Ex Math. Paris. lib. 3.
A proude answere of the Pope.Nor I (sayd he) for the price of hys head (as thou sayst) will lose the geuing of spirituall promotions in England, and confirmyng it with an othe (before God saith he I speake it) know if for a certaine. &c. Then it foloweth in the story of Malmesbery: with thys worde of the Pope, the myndes of the rest were chaunged, saying. Benedicta sit cordis tui constantia, benedicta oris tui loquela. The kynges atturney also was therewith dashed: who notwithstanding yet brought to passe, that certayne of þ^e kynges customes vsed before of his father, were released vnto hym. MarginaliaExcōmunicatiō abused.At the which tyme, in the same court was decreed, that (the kyng onely, which had inuested thē, beyng excepted) the other which were inuested by the king, to be excommunicated: the absolution and satisfaction of whom was left to Anselme the archbishop.

Thus Anselme beyng dismissed from Rome, tooke his iorney toward England. But the ambassadour pretending to go to S. Nicholas remayned behinde, to see whether he could wynne the popes minde to the kings purpose. Which when he saw it would not be, he ouertaketh Anselmus by the way, at Placentia, and opened to him the kinges pleasure. MarginaliaAnselme restrained frō comming to England.
Ex Rodulp. Londinensi.The king (saith he) geueth you in charge & commaundement, that if you will come to England and there behaue your selfe to him, as your prodecessors did to hys father, you should be receiued 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 hym returned againe to the kyng. Anselmus remayned at Lyons a yeare and a halfe, writing diuers letters to the kyng; after this effect and wordes as followeth.

MarginaliaA letter of Anselm to K. Henry.ALthough ye vnderstād by William Warlwast, what we haue done at Rome: yet I shall shortly shewe you that belongeth to me. When I came to Rome, I declared the cause wherfore I came to the Lord Pope. He answered that he would not swarue from the statutes of hys predecessors. Furthermore, he commaunded me that I should haue no fellowship with them that receiued inuestings of Churches at your handes after the knowledge of this prohibition, except they would doe penance & forsake that they had receiued, without hope of recouery: nor that they should not communicate wyth the other Bishops that had consecrated such men, except they would present themselues to the iudgement of the Apostolike sea. The foresayd 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 always towardes me) warned me as your Archbishop, that I should shew my self such a one, that if I would come into England, that I might be wyth you as my predecessor was with your father: and ye might entreate me with the same honour and liberalitie, that your father entreated my predecessor. By which wordes I vnderstand, that except I would shew my selfe such a one, you woulde not haue me come into England. For your loue and liberalitie I thanke you: but that I shoulde be with you as my predecessour was wyth your father, I cannot doe it. For I dare MarginaliaThe proud stoutnes of a prelate in a wrong cause. not do homage to you, nor dare communicate wyth them that take inuestings of churches at your handes: because of the foresayd inhibitiō made, I my selfe hearing it. Wherfore I desire you to sende me your pleasure herein (if it please you) whether I may returne into England (as I said) with your peace and power of mine office.

In the meane while, great busines there was, and much posting went to and fro, betwene the king, the Archbishop, and the Pope, but nothing was done: for neither would the Pope agree to the kyng, neither would þ^e kyng condescende to the Archbyshop. MarginaliaAnselme about to excommunicate the kyng.At last, the Archbishop seing by no meanes he could preuaile against þ^e king: thought to reuenge himselfe by excommunication, and so went about the same. The kyng hauing worde therof by the the Countesse Adala his sister, desireth her to come to hym to Normandye, and bring Anselmus wyth her: MarginaliaReconcilement made betwene the kyng and Anselmus.wherupon (through the meanes of the Countesse) reconcilement was made, and the Archbyshop was restored to his former possessions agayne. Onely his returne into England was differred, because he would not communicate wyth those whom the kyng had inuested. So the kyng tooke his passage ouer into Englande, and Anselme made hys abode at the Abbey of Becke.

MarginaliaAmbassage to Rome.Then were ambassadours againe directed vnto Rome W. Warlwast, & Baldwine aboue named Abbot of Ramesey: who at length concluded the long controuersie betwene the kyng and the Pope, vpon this agreement: that þ^e king should take homage of the Bishops elect, but shoulde not deale with inuesting them by staffe and ring. &c While the Embassadours were thus in their sute at Rome, diuers complaintes were dayly brought from England to Anselme, against the Priestes and Chanons: MarginaliaGuliel. Malmesb. li. 1. De gestis pontifi.
Priestes receaued their wiues agayne by the absence of Anselme.
The faultes of ecclesiasticall ministers long to none but to byshops to correct, quod Anselme.who in his absence, contrary to the late councell holden at London, receaued their wiues vnto their houses agayne, and so were permitted by the kyng, paying hym certaine money for þ^e same. Anselme (the sore enemy agaynst lawfull mariage) agreeued therwith: addresseth his letters vnto the king, requiring him to refraine from any more taking of such exactions: declaring moreouer and affirming, that the offences of all suche ecclesiasticall Ministers must be corrected by the instance of Byshops, and not of lay men. To this the kyng answereth gently agayne by letters, temperyng hymselfe: how he purposed shortly to come ouer into Normandy, and if he had done anye thyng amisse, either in these or other thynges, he would reforme it by his obedience.

MarginaliaThe king brought vnder the archbishop.It was not long after (the messengers beyng now returned from Rome) but the kyng as he had promised, sped him into Normādy: where he warryng agaynst his brother Robert, brought both him and the country of Normandy at last vnder his subiection. But first meetyng w^t Anselmus at the Abbey of Becke, he cōuented & agreed with him in all such poyntes as the Archb. required. MarginaliaConditions graunted by the kyng to Anselme.As first, that all his Churches which before were made tributary vnto kyng William his brother, now should remayne free from all tribute. Itē, that he should require nothing of the sayd Churches or Prouinces, in the tyme of the seat beyng vacant. MarginaliaLawful matrimonye punished.Moreouer, concernyng such Priestes & Ministers, as had geuē money to the kyng for their cōpany with their wiues: it was agreed that they should surcease frō all Ecclesiasticall function, the space of. iij. yeares: & that the kyng should take no more after such maner. Item, that all such goodes, fruites, and possessions, as had bene taken away before frō the aArchbishopricke, should be restored at his commyng agayne into England. &c.

MarginaliaAnselme returneth into England.Thus Anselmus the stout champion of Popery and superstition, after this victory gotten vpon the kyng, for the which he so long fought: with ioy and triumphe sayleth into England, hauyng all his Popish requestes obtayned. MarginaliaPriestes driuen againe from their wiues.Where first, he flieth lyke a Lyon vpon the maried Priestes, contrary to the word of God, diuorsing and punishyng that by mans authoritie, which the eternall and almighty God had coupled. Next he looketh to them, which did hold any Church by farme vnder the kyng. Agaynst Simony likewise, and against them that maryed within the vij. degree, he proceedeth with his full pontificall authoritie.

MarginaliaAn. 1106.Shortly after, as kyng Henry had finished his warre in Normandy, & with victory returned agayne into England, about the vj. yeare of his raigne: Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury (by the permission of the kyng) assembled a great councell at Westminster in London, of the Clergy and Prelates of England.

In the which (by the Byshop of Romes autoritie) he so wrought with the kyng, that at length, albeit (as the story sayth not without great difficultie) it was newly confirmed and enacted: that no temporall man after that day, should make inuesture with crosse or with ryng, or with pastorall hoke. In this councell sondry and diuers iniun-