William I deposed Abbot Thurstan of Glastonbury after the latter ordered archers to shoot the monks at the altar who refused to abandon their Georgian chants in favor of the abbot's Norman innovations. Thurstan was later readmitted by Rufus to the abbey after the payment of 500 pounds of silver.

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