...per totam Angliam, maxime per Northymbriam et per contiguas illi provincias, adeo fames pr,pvaluit, ut homines equinam, caninam, cattinam, et carnem comederent...denounced 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...

...cooperiret, omnibus vel exstinctis gladio et fame, vel propter famem paternum solum relinquentibus." CHAP.XVIII. them, sometimes, when happier days had...denounced 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.'1 To his...

...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,...

...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....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...

...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....denounced by men not 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...