Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . nied by heavy confiscations, and great castles,rising in places of vantage, rendered the Norman power at once visible and se-cure. In the spring of 1069 a fresh revolt broke cut. Robert of Comines, thenewly appointed Earl of Northumberland, was slain at Durham; a Danish fleetentered the Humber, and a Danish army, joined by Eadgar and Waltheof, seizedand burned York, The sons of Harold attacked Devon, while other isolatedoutbreaks took place in th
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . nied by heavy confiscations, and great castles,rising in places of vantage, rendered the Norman power at once visible and se-cure. In the spring of 1069 a fresh revolt broke cut. Robert of Comines, thenewly appointed Earl of Northumberland, was slain at Durham; a Danish fleetentered the Humber, and a Danish army, joined by Eadgar and Waltheof, seizedand burned York, The sons of Harold attacked Devon, while other isolatedoutbreaks took place in the west. These speedily put down by Williamslieutenants: and in the autumn the king himself, going northward a secondtime, recovered York, and harried Northumberland with ruthless to keep Christmas at York, he set out again in January, 1070, tooppose Malcolm, who had crossed the border in aid of the insurgents. Heforced Waltheof to submit, and drove the Scottish king back into his own coun-try; then, marching over pathless fells in the depth of winter, he reached Ches-ter, took the town, and founded another 05 o z I- < I 1-< < -I WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR 95 Northumbria, exhausted and ruined, gave up the struggle, and the oniissionof the northern counties from the Domesday survey throws a grim light on thecompleteness of the Conquest. In one district only, the fens of Cambridgeshire,where Hereward still held out, the spirit of resistance survived. In April, 1071,William arrived at Cambridge and commenced a regular blockade. Advancingcautiously by means of a causeway through the fens, he entered Ely in October,and therewith the last flicker of independence died out. The conquest of Eng-land was completed. To guard against any fresh incitements to rebellion fromScotland, William in 1072 invaded that country and forced Malcolm to do himhomage—an event which had an important effect on the subsequent relations ofthe two countries. Hencefo
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