The larger number of these officials had well-defined duties to discharge, and were paid for their services out of funds provided by the parishioners."-- DR.

JESSOPP, _Before the Great Pillage_.
[3] Radmer, _Life of Anselm_.

(Rolls Series.) [4] "The boldness of Anselm's attitude not only broke the tradition of ecclesiastical servitude, but infused through the nation at large a new spirit of independence."-- J.R.

GREEN, _History of the English People_.
[5] "For as long as any one in all the land was said to hold any power except through him, even in the things of God, it seemed to him that the royal dignity was diminished."-- EADMER, _Life of Anselm_.
[6] See Palgrave's _History of Normandy and England_.
[7] "A martyr he clearly was, not merely to the privileges of the Church or to the rights of the See of Canterbury, but to the general cause of law and order as opposed to violence."-- FREEMAN, _Historical Essays_.
[8] _See_ Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_.
[9] F.York Powell, _England to 1509_.
"Ecclesiastical privileges were not so exclusively priestly privileges as we sometimes fancy.

They sheltered not only ordained ministers, but all ecclesiastical officers of every kind; the Church courts also claimed jurisdiction in the causes of widows and orphans.