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 Arguments of the bishops, of the King, and his own monks     397-399

He is invested and installed by force     398-401

Anselm's renewed protest; his parable of the two oxen; the King orders the restitution of the temporalities of the see     401-403

The royal right of investiture not questioned; no scruples on the part of Anselm; later change in his views     403-404

No ecclesiastical election; sole action of the King; Gundulf's letter to the monks of Bec     404-405

Anselm tarries with Gundulf; consent of the Duke, the Archbishop of Rouen, and the monks of Bec     406

April 17, The King's recovery; the Easter Gemót     407 1093

The King falls back into evil ways; he recalls his acts of mercy     407-408

He keeps his purpose as to Anselm     408-409

March-Dec. Affairs of England and Wales; dealings between 1093      William and Malcolm; designs of William on           Normandy      409-410

Action of William of Eu; he suggests an attack on Normandy     410-411

Dealings of Rufus with the Counts of Flanders     411-412

Oct. 4 or 13, Death of Robert the Frisian; accession of Robert 1093        of Jerusalem      411-412

Interview between Anselm and the King at Rochester; his three conditions     412-414

Anselm requires to be allowed to acknowledge Pope Urban; question of the acknowledgement of Popes; English feeling on the subject     414-416

The King's answer; his special counsellors; Count Robert of Meulan and Bishop William of Durham     417

The King prays Anselm to take the archbishopric; he asks for the confirmation of grants made by him during the vacancy     418

Anselm refuses; statement of the case on both sides; the King's advocatio of the archbishopric     418-421

State of public feeling; special Gemót at Winchester; Anselm receives the archbishopric and does homage     421-422

The King's writ; the Archbishop's thegns; clauses in favour of the monks     422-423

Relations of the Archbishop to the city of Canterbury and the abbey of Saint Alban's     423-424

1093 Death of Abbot Paul of Saint Alban's; four years' vacancy of the abbey     423-424