95. TO ODO.
The Letters of St. Anselm traveling to England at your command and with your ex pectation, so in whatever they do, or however or from whatever source they may live, they should be totally un der your care and providence. c. 1080.
NOTES 1. Richard FitzGilbert, son of Count Gilbert of Brionne, Lord of Tonbridge and Clare, a very large tenant-in-chief in the Domesday book, and Rohais, daughter of the elder Walter Giffard; see EHD II: 992.
2. Son of Richard and Rohais, he was a monk at Bee and became abbot of Ely in 1100. Deposed by the Council of Westminster in 1102, he resumed his abbacy though not recognized by pope and archbishop until May 1107. He died on 16 June 1107; see Epp 96, 114, 280, 397,
422 and Heads 45.
3. For provisions and gifts for Bee and its dependencies see M. Chibnall, The Relations of St Anselm with the English Dependencies of the Abbey of Bee 1079-1093/ Spicilegium Beccense I (Paris, 1959) 524-525; idem, The English Possessions of Bee in the time of Anselm', Spicilegi um Beccense II (Paris, 1984) 273-282.
4. See also Epp 90, 91, 92, 93.
95. TO ODO.
Anselm encourages Odo to leave the world and become a monk.
TO HIS LORD AND BELOVED BROTHER IN CHRIST, ODO: BROTHER
ANSELM SENDS GREETING.
IF YOUR LOVE, WEIGHED DOWN till now with love of the world, has labored under the thorny cares1 of its riches, it might be good to call to mind the words of the Lord who said, Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.2 Yet since someone who already perceives that the world and its gratifications will pass away* no longer loves the world or what is in the world,4 but seeks those things which are above, not things on the earth,51 see nothing more appropriate to be said to him than what is written: son, do