The monastic community that extended a warm welcome to guests stood to enhance its reputation and might also reap financial benefits. Shortly after his consecration to the See of Canterbury in 1093, Anselm wrote a letter of advice to his former community at Bec in which he encouraged the monks to use hospitality to secure the goodwill and support of others. Anselm was not alone in realising the potential benefits of extending a warm welcome to guests. Following his visitation of Abingdon Abbey in 1245, Robert de Carevill instructed the monks to receive ecclesiastical and lay visitors according to their nobility, importance, rank and dignity, since this would increase charity, project the honour of the church, and secure advantage in a diversity of things and places. The episcopal injunctions issued to Prior Walter of Ely (occ. 1241–59) stipulated that for the sake of the church's reputation guests be shown humility. The importance of this enjoinder is suggested by its appearance second on the list of his ordinances. These were clearly not empty words of advice, for Osbert de Clare maintained that it was the warm welcome he had received at Lewes Priory which sparked off his close friendship with its prior, Hugh.