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And when
by
his better skill in Computation
he,prevailed again.fi the Holy
Scots
for .the
Roman
time of
Eafter,
the Merit of that, and that he
was
~he
firft that brought in linging by
Antiphons
1
and
the Benedictine Monkery were good werks which
he pleaded againfi diminifhmg his Biihoprick:
JtJ!.
L11almesbury,
p.
I
5
I. --
The mofl: Learned were placed at
Canterbury,
Viz.,
Odo, Dtmftane,
fpecially
Lanfrank!;, Anfelme;.,
&c.
whofe Miracles by the Monks are magnified
beyond belief, which tended much to advance
~hei r
Interefi. But what the generality of the
:Bifhops were
long,
judge by
the~
words of
N.[almef–
bury de geft. Font.
Li .
I.
p.
n6.
[[peaking
how
Sti–
p,andm
gotboth the Bjfhopricks
of
Winehe{fer
and
Canterbury,
and how Sacrilegious and Wicked a
Life he lived, felling Bifhopricks and Abbies,
of
unbounded Ambition and Covetoufnefs,- adds,
[
Sgd
ego
conjicio
iRum
non j udicio
fed
errore peccare, .
quod
homo
illueratu-s ( jtcuti pleriq;
&
pene omneJ tunc
temporis A n;,lite Epi[copi )' ne{ciret quantum deliquerit,
rem
Ecclefiafticorum negotiorum ficut publicorum aEli–
t.::t,ri
exiftimaiJs,]
that is,
[But I
coniefJure tkat he
Ji1med not kpowingly but by error
;
That being an
1//i--;
terat e Man, (
&
mo[t and almoft all the Bijhops of
England
thm were ) he
k,.new
not how . mur;h heotran;-:.._
grejfed; thinking that Chlf,_rchm.atters were to·be ma-
-
ltaged likg Pub!iclz matter
I,
J (
that is fecular.) ·
_And
this was in good K.
Edward's
Reign, and at
the Conqueft. And is it any wonder if fuch Bi·
fbops broQgbt in Popery. And though the Con–
queror. firove .not till he
was
fetled, he and his
~on ·aft~t
him
.wer~
fain
tp
be refolute in defend–
:mg
themf~lvesagamft
their own Prelates and the
fop~:
And though
f.lert.~
I.
wifely ordered them,
,
.
'
.
th~
.
'
,,
.