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chap. When William’s profaneness therefore returnedV. to him with his health , he was soon engaged in

1096. controversies with this austere prelate. There

was at that- time a schism in the church, betweenUrban and Clement, who both pretended to thepapacy " , and Anselm , who, as abbot of Bee,bad already acknowledged the former, was deter-mined, without the king’s consent, to introducebis authority into England William, who,imitating his father’s example, had prohibited hissubjects from recognising any pope , whom hebad not previously received, was enraged at thisattempt; and summoned a synod at Rockingham,with an intention of deposing Anselm : But theprelate’s suffragans declared, that, without thepapal authority, they knew of no expedient forinflicting that punishment on their primate 35 .The king was at last engaged by other motivesto give the preference to Urban’s title ; Anselmreceived the pall from that pontiff; and mattersseemed to be accommodated between the kingand the primate 36 , when the quarrel broke outafresh from a new cause. William had undertakenan expedition against Wales , and required thearchbishop to furnish his quota of soldiers forthat service ; but Anselm , who regarded thedemand as an oppression on the church, and yetdurst not refuse compliance, sent them so miserably

n Hoveden, p. qsiz. " Ep.dmer, p. 25. M. Paris,p. iZ. Diceto, p. 494. Spelim. Cone. vol. it. p. 16.

" Eadmer, p. 30. " Diceto, p. 495.