103. TO LANFRANC,: Archbishop Of Canterbury.
The Letters of St. Anselm
NOTES 1. Gregory VII ruled from 22 April 1073-25 May 1085.
2. Cf. Jm 5:16.
3. Cf. 2 Kgs 19:38.
4. Mt 7:7.
5. Ps 10:8.
6. Hubert, sub-deacon of the holy Roman Church, was sent as papal legate to the Anglo-Norman kingdom in 1072 and 1079/80; see Ep 125;
OVII: 252; EHD 11:643, 647; The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Can terbury, ed. and trans., H. Clover and M. Gibson (Oxford, 1979) let ters 3, 38, 39; Tillmann, Legaten, 15-17; CS 625-627.
103. TO LANFRANC,
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
Anselm reluctantly sends Gilbert Crispin back to England after his appointment as abbot of Westminster.
TO HIS LORD AND FATHER, THE REVEREND ARCHBISHOP
LANFRANC: BROTHER ANSELM, SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF
GOD DWELLING AT BEC, WITH THESE SAME FELLOW-MONKS OF
HIS, FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THEIR LORD AND RESPECTFUL SONS
OF THEIR RESPECTED FATHER.
WITH REGARD TO DOM GILBERT1 we have complied with your command by sending him to you. If it is much later than you commanded, this was surely not done out of negligence, but because of many hindrances which would take too long to relate now. But you should know that if anything occurs to make him remain in the land of the English this will cause exceedingly grave damage—greater indeed than can be briefly stated here—for the present and the future, the inward and outward affairs of our church, as well as great sadness. Wherefore, through the devotion and charity which we know your paternity has always had for us, we pray and beseech as hard as we may, with due respect to the justice and reverence of your holiness that if you can see how this can be done without opposing God's