Compare 1577 edition: 1 All this while Anselme was deteined with long and gréeuous sicknesse,Ans [...]lme sick. and yet not forgetfull of the obstinate dealing of Thomas of Yorke, he wrote let|ters vnto him, by vertue whereof he suspended him EEBO page image 36 from exercising all pastorall function, till he had re|formed his errour, submitted himselfe to receiue his blessing, and acknowledged his subiection to the church of Canturburie, as his predecessours Tho|mas and Gerard had doone, and before them other ancients, as custome had prescribed. Thus he char|ged him, vpon paine of cursing, except he would re|nounce his archbishops dignitie: for in so dooing he did grant him licence to vse the office and ministerie of a préest (which before time he had taken vpon him) or else not.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 In the same letters he prohibited all the bishops within the precinct of the Ile of Britaine, that in no wise they should consecrate him, vpon paine of curs|sing: and if he should chance to be consecrated by any stranger, that in no wise they should (vnder the like paine) receiue him for archbishop, or communi|cate with him in any condition. Euerie bishop also within the whole Ile of Britaine had a copie of these leters directed to him from Anselme vnder his seale,Letters from Anselme. commanding them to behaue themselues therein ac|cording to the contents, and as they were bound by the subiection which they owght to the church of Can|turburie. The letters were dated alike in March.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Notwithstanding all this, vpon the 21. of Aprill insuing,1109 Anno Reg. 10. Anselme ended his life in the sixtéenth yéere after his first preferment to that sée, being thréescore and sixtéene yeeres of age. He was an Italian, borne in Piemont, Augusta Prae|toriana néere to the Alpes, in a citie called Ao|sta, he was brought vp by Lanfranke, and before he was made archbishop, was abbat of the monasterie of Bechellouin in Normandie.