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GERARD.—THOMAS II.
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minster near his predecessor Aldred.
He was a man
of undoubted ability, with no mean amount of learning,
and of irreproachable morals.
[iioi.] He was succeeded by Gerard, Bishop of
Hereford, who had been one of Rufus's chaplains.
The question of subjection to Canterbury was again
stirred. Anselm refused to recommend him to the
pope when he was on the way to Rome to obtain his
pall unless he would promise obedience to the chair
of Canterbury either before
he went or on his return.
Gerard's reply was evasive. But he took a letter
with him addressed by the king to Paschal, and
obtained the pall. More than one unseemly collision
took place between him and Anselm, but the exile of
the latter seems to have drawn out more kindly feelings
on the part of Gerard, and their reconciliation
after his return from his banishment appears to have
been complete.
Archbishop Gerard obtained the church of Laugh
ton from the king, and it formed the endowment of
an additional stall in the minster. From the same
source he obtained six other churches. That of
Snaith he bestowed upon Selby Abbey. The
churches of Driffield, Kilham, Pocklington, Pickering,
and Burgh he gave to the minster.
[1108.] Thomas II., son of Sampson, the first
Norman Bishop of Worcester, who was a brother of
Thomas of Bayeux, was the next Archbishop. He
had been appointed by his uncle as provost of Beverley,
when the foundation attached to that minster was
re-constituted. In 1108 the see of London fell
vacant, and Thomas v/as nominated to it. But the