held him _apayred_ with only the offering of Christian men, and was
holden a clean _mayde_, and did no outrage in drink,"[249] yet in his
intercourse with William II. and Henry I., he involved himself in
ceaseless quarrels; and quitted both his archiepiscopal chair and the
country. His memory, however, is consecrated among the fathers of
scholastic divinity.

[Footnote 245: These were the common school books of the
period.]

[Footnote 246: Though the abbey of Croyland was burnt only
twenty-five years after the conquest, its library then
consisted of 900 volumes, of which 300 were very large. The
lovers of English history and antiquities are much indebted
to Ingulph for his excellent history of the abbey of
Croyland, from its foundation, A.D. 664, to A.D. 1091: into
which he hath introduced much of the general history of the
kingdom, with a variety of curious anecdotes that are no
where else to be found. DR. HENRY: book iii., chap. iv.,
Sec. 1 and 2. But Ingulph merits a more particular eulogium.
The editors of that stupendous, and in truth, matchless
collection of national history, entitled _Recueil des
Historiens des Gaules_, thus say of him: "Il avoit tout vu
en bon connoisseur, et ce qu'il rapporte, il l'ecrit en
homme lettre, judicieux et vrai:" tom. xi., p. xlij. In case
any reader of this note and lover of romance literature
should happen to be unacquainted with the French language, I
will add, from the same respectable authority, that "The
readers of the _Round Table History_ should be informed that
there are many minute and curious descriptions in INGULPH
which throw considerable light upon the history of _Ancient
Chivalry_." Ibid. See too the animated eulogy upon him, at
p. 153, note _a_, of the same volume. These learned editors
have, however, forgotten to notice that the best, and only
perfect, edition of Ingulph's History of Croyland Abbey,
with the continuation of the same, by Peter de Blois and
Edward Abbas, is that which is inserted in the first volume
of Gale's _Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Veteres_: Oxon, 1684.
(3 vols.)]

[Footnote 247: LANFRANC was obliged, against his will, by
the express command of Abbot Harlein, to take upon him the
archbishopric in the year 1070. He governed that church for
nineteen years together, with