and shame
Seye that he was a somnour for the name."

("Freres Tale," l. 94.)

[228] They built a good many. Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, after having
been a parish priest at Caen, first tried his hand as a builder, in
erecting castles; he built some at Newark, Sleaford, and Banbury. He
then busied himself with holier work and endowed Lincoln Cathedral with
its stone vault. This splendid church had been begun on a spot easy to
defend by another French bishop, Remi, formerly monk at Fecamp:
"Mercatis igitur praediis, in ipso vertice urbis juxta castellum turribus
fortissimis eminens, in loco forti fortem, pulchro pulchrum, virgini
virgineam construxit ecclesiam; quae et grata esset Deo servientibus et,
ut pro tempore oportebat, invincibilis hostibus." Henry of Huntingdon,
"Historia Anglorum," Rolls, p. 212.

[229] "Epistola Hugonis ... de dejectione Willelmi Eliensis episcopi
Regis cancellarii," in Hoveden, "Chronica," ed. Stubbs, Rolls, vol. iii.
p. 141, year 1191: "Hic ad augmentum et famam sui nominis, emendicata
carmina et rhythmos adulatorios comparabat, et de regno Francorum
cantores et joculatores muneribus allexerat, ut de illo canerent in
plateis: et jam dicebatur ubique, quod non erat talis in orbe." See
below, pp. 222, 345.

[230] See Stubbs, Introductions to the "Chronica Magistri Rogeri de
Hovedene." Rolls, 1868, 4 vols. 8vo, especially vols. iii. and iv.

[231] Lanfranc, 1005?-1089, archbishop in 1070; "Opera quae supersunt,"
ed. Giles, Oxford, 1843, 2 vols. 8vo.--St. Anselm, 1033-1109, archbishop
of Canterbury in 1093; works ("Monologion," "Proslogion," "Cur Deus
homo," &c.) in Migne's "Patrologia," vol. clviii. and clix.--Stephen
Langton, born ab. 1150, of a Yorkshire family, archbishop in 1208, d.
1228.

[232] A declared supporter of the Franciscans, and an energetic censor
of the papal court, bishop of Lincoln 1235-53, has left a vast number of
writings, and enjoyed considerable reputation for his learning and
sanctity. His letters have been edited by Luard, "Roberti Grosseteste
... Epistolae," London, 1861, Rolls. See below, p. 213. Roger Bacon
praised highly his learned works, adding, however: "quia Graecum et
Hebraeum non scivit sufficienter ut per se transferret, sed habuit multos
adjutores." "Rogeri Bacon Opera ... inedita," ed. Brewer, 1859, Rolls,
p. 472.

[233] "Gesta Regum Anglorum," by William of Malmesbury, ed. Hardy, 1840,
"Prologus." He knew well the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" and