[1] [2] [3] Whereas also not onelie Walkhem the bishop of Winchester, but diuerse, other bishops in Eng|land were in mind to haue displaced moonks out of their cathedrall churches, and to haue brought ca|nons into their roomes, Lanfranke withstood them,Lanfranke praised for holding with the moonks. and would tollerate no such dislocation: an act at that time so well liked, that he was highlie commended for the same. After Lanfrankes death, the king be|gan greatlie to forget himselfe in all his dealings, insomuch that he kept many concubines, and waxed verie cruell and inconstant in all his dooings, so that he became an heauie burthen vnto his people.The king gi|uen to sensuall lust and coue|tousnesse. For he was so much addicted to gather goods, that he con|sidered not what perteined to the maiestie of a king, insomuch that nothing tending to his gaine, and the satisfieng of his appetite, was estéemed of him vn|lawfull, sith he measured all things by the vncontrol|led rule of his roialtie, and considered nothing what so high an office required. He kept the sée of Cantur|burie foure yeares in his hands, to sée who would giue most for it, in the meane time taking the pro|fits thereof, and making the vttermost of the same that by any meanes could be deuised.