Just as easy is it to regard the Peasant Revolt of the fourteenth century and Jack Cade's rebellion in the fifteenth century as the tumults of a riotous mob.
The great point is to see clearly in all these contests, successful and unsuccessful, the movement for liberty, for greater security and expansion of life in England, and to note that only by a stern endurance and a willingness not to bear an irksome oppression have our liberties been won.
In the winning of these liberties we have proved our fitness for democracy, for a government that will allow the fullest measure of self-development.
Now, what was it that Anselm contended for, first with William II.

and then with Henry I.?
ARCHBISHOP ANSELM AND NORMAN AUTOCRACY Anselm was sixty when, in 1093, William II.

named him for the Archbishopric of Canterbury.

In vain Anselm, who was Abbot of the famous monastery of Bec, in Normandy, protested that he was too old, and that his business was not with high place and power in this world.

The King seemed to be dying, and the bishops gathered round the sick bed would not hear of any refusal on Anselm's part.