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" 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. "
The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of William the ... - Page 290
by Edward Augustus Freeman - 1876
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The reign of William the Conquereror. 1871

Edward Augustus Freeman - 1871 - 892 pages
...CHAP.XVIII. them, sometimes, when happier days had come, to be set free by the charity of their masters.1 Before the end of the year, Yorkshire was a wilderness....by men not indisposed to make the best of William's -William's deeds as a deed on which the wrath of God was conduct. sure to follow.'2 To his own conscience...
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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of William the ...

Edward Augustus Freeman - 1876 - 956 pages
...feed them, sometimes, when happier days had come, to be set free by the charity of their masters. 2 Before the end of the year, Yorkshire was a wilderness. The bodies of its inhabitants were rotting 1 in the streets, in the highways, or on their own hearthstones; and those who had escaped from sword,...
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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its ..., Volume 4

Edward Augustus Freeman - 1876 - 960 pages
...their own kind.1 Others, in the speaking words of our old records, bowed their necks for meat in the evil days. They became slaves to any one who would...from sword, fire, and hunger, had fled out of the laud. Contemporary estimate of William's conduct. The harrying of northern England was a deed which...
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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of William the ...

Edward Augustus Freeman - 1876 - 994 pages
...relinqucntibus." CHAP.XTIH. the flesh of their own kind.1 Others, in the speaking therLdves wor(^s °f our old records, bowed their necks for meat in the...indisposed to make the best of William's deeds as a deed on which the wrath of God was sure to follow.3 To his own conscience it was perhaps 1 Flor....
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Readings from English History: From Hengest to Cressy

John Richard Green - 1879 - 220 pages
...would feed them, sometimes, when happier days had come, to be set free by the charity of their masters. Before the end of the year Yorkshire was a wilderness....from sword, fire, and hunger, had fled out of the land.9 X. LANFRANC. CHURCH. [The Norman Conquest of England was very different from any conquest that...
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Readings from English History, Volumes 1-3

John Richard Green - 1879 - 708 pages
...would feed them, sometimes, when happier days had come, to be set free by the charity of their masters. Before the end of the year Yorkshire was a wilderness....from sword, fire, and hunger, had fled out of the land.9 X. LANFRANC. CHURCH. [The Norman Conquest of England was very different from any conquest that...
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The Royal Readers: Special Canadian Series ..., Book 5

1883 - 528 pages
...would feed them; sometimes, when happier days had come, to be set free by the charity of their masters. Before the end of the year Yorkshire was a wilderness....sword, fire, and hunger had fled out of the land. William's work north of the Humber was now done. The land was thoroughly conquered, but it was thoroughly...
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Occasional Papers

Patrick Francis Moran - 1890 - 318 pages
...them. There were those who did not shrink from keeping themselves alive on the flesh of their own kind. Before the end of the year Yorkshire was a wilderness....sword, fire, and hunger, had fled out of the land." Such was the devastation of Northumbria ; and yet, amid such harrowing scenes, William did not hesitate...
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An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland (500-1701).

Robert Sangster Rait - 1901 - 274 pages
...cruelty can have made good their flight, for we are told that the bodies of the inhabitants of Yorkshire "were rotting in the streets, in the highways, or on their own hearthstones ". Stone dead left no fellow to colonize Scotland. We find, therefore, only the results and not the...
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Scotland

Robert Sangster Rait - 1911 - 406 pages
...country was thinly populated. The bodies of the inhabitants of Yorkshire were, Mr. Freeman tells us, " rotting in the streets, in the highways, or on their own hearthstones." How many of them lived to tell in Scottish exile the tale of " that fearful deed, half of policy, half...
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