Stigand of his own in the church of Thetford. About a year later Herbert was again in possession of his see.[1] How he was restored to the King's favour we are not told. He may have deemed it no sin to win it by means which he had learned to look upon as sin when applied to the obtaining of a spiritual office. Next year he removed the seat of the East-Anglian bishopric once more. Herfast had moved it from Elmham to Thetford. With the good will and help of Roger Bigod Herbert now translated it to its final seat at Norwich. He there began the foundation of that vast church and monastery, the creation of which caused his name to be ever since held in at least local honour.
Lent, 1094.
Anselm rebukes the minions.
Meanwhile the north wind still refused to blow, and
the King with his prelates, lords, and courtiers, still
tarried at Hastings. Lent began before the fleet had
a chance of sailing. The penitential season began with
the usual ceremonies. The Archbishop said his mass and
preached his sermon in the ears of the multitude who
came together on the day of ashes, to receive, according
to custom, the ashes of penitence from the hands
of the Primate. Among them came the minions and
young gallants of the court of Rufus, with their long
combed and twined hair, their mincing gait, defying
alike the commands of the Apostle and the dictates of
common decency and manliness. The voice of Anselm
rebuked them, as well he might, when the outward garb
was but the sign of the deeper foulness within. Not a
few were moved to repentance; they submitted to the
- [Footnote: notions as the deprivation of Stigand by the English people. The
Parliaments of Elizabeth, William and Mary, George the First, followed that precedent. I will not speak of the reign of Edward the Sixth, as that was a time of "unlaw" nearly equal to the days of Rufus himself.]
- ↑ See Appendix X.
