[1] In this meane time, [...]he king had seized into his hands the possessions of the archbishop of Canturbu|rie, Wil. Malm. and banished Anselme, so that he staied at Lions in France for the space of one yeare and foure mo|neths, during which time there passed manie letters and messages to and fro. The pope also wrote to king Henrie in verie courteous maner, exhorting him to call Anselme home againe, and to release his claime to the inuestitures of bishops,The pope writeth cour|teouslie to the king. wherevnto he could haue no right, sith it apperteined not to the office of any temporall magistrate: adding furthermore, if the king would giue ouer that vngodlie and vsurped custome, that he would shew such fréendlie fauour in all things, as by the sufferance of God in any wise he might be able to performe, and further would re|ceiue not onelie him, but also his yoong sonne Wil|liam (whom latelie it had pleased God to send him by his vertuous wife queene Maud) into his pro|tection, so that who so euer did hurt either of them, should be thought to hurt the holie church of Rome.