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lay nobles, with the King's orders to punish the offenders. The monks were scourged; but, by the intercession of the Prior and monks of Christ Church, the discipline was inflicted privately with no lay eyes to behold. They were then scattered through different monasteries, and twenty-four monks of Christ Church, with their sub-prior Anthony as Prior, were sent to colonize the empty cloister of Saint Augustine's. The doom of the citizens was harder; those who were found guilty of a share in the attack on the Abbot lost their eyes. The justice of the Red King, stern as it was, thus drew the distinction for which Thomas of London strove in after days. The lives and limbs of monastic offenders were sacred.
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§ 3. The Character of William Rufus.

The one great event recorded in the year after the rebellion was the death of Archbishop Lanfranc, an