Note 216 — Chapter VII
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The deprecatory answer of Thomas to Anselm is very characteristic of the age, “The money which I had collected for coming to you—and it was a large sum for my means—was all spent at Winchester, where I stopped too long. I then hurried home to scrape together some more to send to Rome for my pallium,” adding, “and I am still seeking for money, but very little can I find, except at a grievous rate of interest,”—a complaint alas! common to those in the Archbishop’s circumstances in every age. Ead. Hist. Nov., p. 98.