sentences:  He gave an extensive library to the cathedral at Bath, and eventually the monks there became reconciled to him.John, however, continued to hold most of the old abbey's manors himself, rather than using them for the support of the monks.John was one of the bishops that sided with King William against Anselm of Canterbury at the king's Whitsun council in 1097, one of early councils called during the Investiture Controversy in England.