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 Vacant prelacies held by the King; power of prolonging the vacancy     347

Sale of bishoprics and abbeys; simony not systematic before Rufus     347-348

Treatment of vacant churches; Flambard the chief agent     349

Novelty of the practice; tenure in frankalmoign     350  1092-1100    Resignation and restoration of Abbot Odo of Chertsey      350  Distinction between bishoprics and abbeys; the vacancies longer in the case of the abbeys      350-352  English abbots; story of the appointment to an unnamed abbey      352-353  Sees vacant in 1092      353  1091-1123     Ralph Luffa Bishop of Chichester; his appointment               and episcopate      353-354  1091     Death of Bishop William of Thetford; history of          Herbert Losinga; he buys the bishopric      354  1088-1091     Three years' vacancy of New Minster      355  1091-1093     Herbert buys the abbey for his father Robert      355  1093     Herbert repents; receives his bishopric again from          the Pope; novelty of the act      355-356  1092-1094     Vacancy of the see of Lincoln      356  1089-1093     Vacancy of Canterbury      356   § 2. ''The Vacancy of the Primacy and the Appointment of Anselm. 1089-1093.''

Effects of the vacancy of the see of Canterbury     357

Special position of the metropolitan see; place of the Archbishop as the leader of the nation     358-359

Appointment to the archbishopric; the see not granted to the King's clerks     359

The King's purpose to keep the see vacant; his motives     359-361

No fear of a bad appointment     361-362

No thought of election either by the monks or by the Witan; silent endurance of the nation     362-363

Results of the vacancy; corruption of the clergy; lack of ecclesiastical discipline     363-365

Anselm; debt of England to foreigners; the Burgundian saints, Anselm and Hugh     365

1080    Birth and parentage of Anselm; Aosta      366-368

Comparison of Lanfranc and Anselm; various sides of Anselm's character; he is not preferred in England by the Conqueror     368-369

Anselm and Eadmer; references to Eadmer in other writers     369-370