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As Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Anselm was trying to enforce the laws of celibacy as enacted both by Rome, and by the Council of London under Henry I. Henry was very upset at having to pay for whole families, and wanted the Church returned to discipline. St. Anselm resorted at one point to replaced recalcitrant priests with monks. The English married clergy were not going into celibacy easily, and the King was locking them up, although he and St. Anselm came to an agreement later in which the jailed priests were released and even paid. There was also legislation on what to do with the children from married priests.

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