The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of William the Conqueror. 1876Clarendon Press, 1876 |
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abbey Abbot Angliæ Appendix Berkshire Bishop bishoprick castle CHAP CHAP.XVIII Chester Chron Chronicle church Cnut confiscation Conqueror Conquest Copsige Crown cyng Danes Danish death Domesday doubtless Durham Eadgar Eadgyth Eadmer Eadnoth Eadric Eadward Eadwine Ealdred Earl earldom ecclesiæ ecclesiastical ejus England English Englishmen erat estates Eustace Exeter favour Fécamp Florence foreign fortress Gemót Gest Godric Godwine Gospatric granted hands Harold held Herefordshire Hist honour ipse King William King's land Lanfranc Malms minster monastery monks Morkere Norman Normandy Northumbrian Orderic Oswulf Peterborough Peterborough Chronicle Petrib Pict prelate Primate quæ quam quod quum Rege Regem Regis revolt Robert Saint seems Senlac shires sibi Stigand story suâ sunt Swegen tempore tenuit Thegns tion told town Waltheof Wiggod William Fitz-Osbern William of Malmesbury William of Poitiers William's reign Winchester XVII York þæt
Popular passages
Page 508 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Page 312 - The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly .liberal ; and all was done by charity that private charity could do ; but it was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food.
Page 688 - So very narrowly he caused it to be " traced out, that there was not a single hide, nor one virgate of land, nor even, " it is shame to tell. though it seemed to him no shame to do, an ox, nor a cow, " nor a swine was left, that was not set down.
Page 688 - He sent over all England into ilk shire his men, and let them find out how many hundred hides were in the shire, or what the king himself had of land or cattle in the land, or whilk rights he ought to have.
Page 795 - ... performances and his other actions. On the other hand, a transcriber meeting with any of the unintelligible forms which I have just quoted might think it a clever hit to substitute some familiar name, Henry or any other. As to the internal probability of the work being Alfred's, we know pretty well what his attainments were, what he wrote and what he translated. There is no evidence that he ever translated any fables, and there is nothing to show that he had any knowledge of Greek. In fact the...
Page 290 - Before the end of the year, Yorkshire was a wilderness. The bodies of its inhabitants were rotting in the streets, in the highways, or on their own hearthstones; and those who had escaped from sword, fire, and hunger, had fled out of the land.
Page 773 - ... thousands of people. Only, while in the later version they are Danes slain by William, in the earlier account they are people, of whatever nation, slain by Waltheof and his companions. Roger of Wendover tells us how Eadgar, Waltheof, and the rest, " Junctis viribus ad Eboracum venientes, urbem cum castello quantocius occuparunt, et multa ibidem hominum millia peremerunt.
Page 827 - Comitis," who, to say nothing of his remarkable name, must have been great-great-grandson of the still living Godgifu. But another name (p. 50) seems to suggest a lost piece of Teutonic song or legend ; " Godwinus Gille, qui vocabatur Godwinus, quia non impar Godwino filio Guthlaci, qui in fabulis antiquonm1 valde prcedicatur," which should be taken along with the mention of the Guthlacingas in Orderic (537 C).
Page 289 - State of the time the scene was so fearful that the contemporary at^he"" writers seem to lack words to set forth its full horrors. timeMen, women, and children died of hunger ; they laid them down and died in the roads and in the fields, and there was no man to bury them.3 Those who survived kept up life on strange and unwonted food.
Page 705 - The king then dictated a letter to Lanfranc, setting forth his wishes with regard to the kingdom. He sealed it and gave it to his son William, and bade him, with his last blessing and his last kiss, to cross at once into England. William Rufus straightway set forth for Witsand, and there heard of his father's death. Meanwhile Henry, too, left his father's bedside to take for himself the money that was left to him, to see that nothing was lacking in its weight, to call together his comrades on whom...