Note 668 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051. (continued 2)
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Dr. Hook (ii. 76, 80) discusses the question at length. I cannot infer from the use of the word “exsilium” by Orderic (519 A), that Lanfranc was driven from Pavia by any political revolution, any more than Orderic himself, when “tenellus exsul” in Normandy. See above, p. 216.