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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 123
a sentence of justice be passed that by its example, may
God forbid ! in times to come either anyone may without
right he deprived of freedom, or God be unjustly cheated of
those who ought to remain his own."
All applauded the need for so doing, and promised that
they
would not do otherwise.
And so the father withdrew alone from the assembly,
and the church of England, which was gathered together,
discussed the sentence to be pronounced. Thereafter [Anselm]
was brought in with honour, and it was declared to him what
the common opinion of all had arrived at in the matter.
They said that, after examining the question, it seemed
to ^ them to be established, and they declared themselves
that the girl could not justly be restricted
ready to prove it,
in her case by any judgment whereby she might not dispose
of the freedom of her person in any way she should lawfully
desire.
"
And though we can prove this," they said, "by an easy
argument, yet we refrain, because there is no need to do so ;
remembering a decision, weightier than our arguments, concurrent
with this sentence of justice, given in a similar case
by your predecessor of venerable teacher Lanfranc.
memory, our father and
.
i "For when William the Great first subdued this land
many of his followers took credit to themselves for so great
a victory and protested that all things must obey and be
subject to their pleasures and excesses ; and began to rage
with unspeakable lust not only after the possessions of the
conquered, but even after the married women also and the
maidens, whenever opportunity offered. But this some
foresaw, and in fear of dishonour betook themselves to the
nunneries, and by receiving the veil among the nuns protected
themselves from so great disgrace. And when after-
, wards this curse was allayed and tranquillity (considering
the state of the times) had been restored to the country, it
was inquired of that father Lanfranc what he thought about
the women who had saved their honour by taking such
refuge; whether they were to be compelled to retain in the
monastery the veil which they had taken, or not.
u "And he solved this question by the advice of a general
council, in such wise that they adjudged that for the chastity,
their devotion to which [these women] had attested by so
evident a manifestation, they ought rather to have due honour
shown them than to have any continence of adherence to