A N S E L M. tending not to be fmisfied with the quota the archbifhop had furnifhed for that expedition. Anfelm finding hinifeU" too weak to oppolc the corruption* of the times, refolved to go in pcrfon to Koine, to confulc the pope; but the king, to whom he applied tor leave to go out of the kingdom, refufed Irs requdt : the archbifhop, however, being determined upon the voy.ige, embarked at Dover. As foon as the king heard Anfelm had crollcd tliC;-, r f Channel, he feized upon the archbifhopric. Anf< Im got 44. fafe to Rome, and was honourably received by the pope, whom he accompanied to his country feat near Capua : and here he wrote a book concerning the incarnation of our Sa- viour. The pope wrote to the king, cnjoinrng him, by his authority, to reinltate Anfelm in all the profits and jvivilejes of his fee. Anfdm was very fcrviceable to his holincf-> in the council of Bari, held to oppofe the errors of the Greek church, with refpeft to the proceflion of the Holy Ghoft. la this fynod, he anfwered the objections of the Greeks in fuch a manner, that he filenced them, and gave general fatisfac- tion to the weftern church. The pope upon this occafion gave him the title of " alterius orbis papa," i. e. pope of the other world, meaning England. After the fynod of Bari was ended, the pope and Anfelm returned to Rome, where an embaffador from England was arrived, in order to difprove Anfelm's allegations and complaints againft his mafter; and partly by prefents, and partly by promifes, he got the court of Rome to dtfe.t Anfelm [B]. The archbilhop, perceiving ibid. P . S z. how matters (tood, would have gone to Lyons, but the pnpe would not part with him; and in order to footh him alter his difappointment, he lodged him in a noble palace, where he made him frequent vifits; and a council being fummoned about this time to fit at Rome, Anfelm had a very honour- Mj|,rfh. able feat afli'iitd him and his fuccelTors, this being the fir(U time of an archbifhop of Canterbury's appearing at a Roman J' 1 fynod. When the council broke up, Anfelm immediately p . lt j. left Rome, and returned to Lyons, where he ftayed till he- heard of the death of king William and pope Urban, which happened not long after his removal to that city. TB] Th; s affjir is briefly mentioned his holinefs hun; in fi.fpence betwrta fcyladinerj bm WillUm . r ivJ;-lm.ftury confcience and in:crd>, but enlarges with more t.eecom on the be- o-bilanced by thr eonl delation Ol a bavionr of the court of Rome : he telli good prefent. De C i.nui. Angl. us, the pope was under feme difficulty lib, i. p. a>3 the matter j that for ibme time rlcnry
