The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of William the Conqueror. 1871Clarendon Press, 1871 |
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Abbey Abbot Æthelsige Angli Appendix atque Berkshire Bishop Bishoprick castle CHAP CHAP.XVIII Chron Chronicle church Cnut confiscation Conqueror Conquest Copsige Crown Danes Danish district Domesday doubt doubtless Durham Eadgar Eadgyth 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 Gytha hands Harold held Herefordshire honour ipse King William King's lands Lanfranc Malm minster monastery monks Morkere Norman Normandy North Northumberland Northumbrian Peterborough Chronicler Petrib Pict Pont possession Prelate Primate quæ quam quod quum Rege Regem Regis Remigius Robert Saint seems Senlac Sheriff shires sibi Siward Stigand story submission sunt Swend tenuit Thegns tion town Waltheof William Fitz-Osbern William of Malmesbury William of Poitiers William's reign Winchester XVII York þæt
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Page 598 - De par le roi ; defense a Dieu • De faire miracle en ce lieu.
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 691 - 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 806 - 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 antiquorum valde pnedicatur," which should be taken along with the mention of the Guthlacingas in Orderic (537 C).
Page 292 - 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 691 - Eke he let write how mickle of land his archbishops had, and his bishops, and his abbots and his earls, and what or how mickle ilk man had that landholder was in England in land and in cattle, and how mickle fee it was worth. So very narrowly he let...
Page 690 - Commissioners made their inquiry by the oaths of the Sheriffs, the parish priests, the reeves, and the men generally, French and English, of each lordship. They were to report who had held the land in the time of King "Eadward and who held it then...
Page 291 - Christian men survivorawas forgotten under the stress of hunger. Nay, there were those who did not shrink from keeping themselves alive on the flesh of their own...
Page 711 - The great men mounted their horses and rode with all speed to their own homes, to guard their houses and goods against the outburst of lawlessness which was sure to break forth now that the land had no longer a ruler. Their servants and followers, seeing their lords gone, and deeming that there was no longer any fear of punishment, began to make spoil of the royal chamber. Weapons, clothes, vessels, the...