The British nation a history / by George MWrong . aranteed to them the laws ofEdward the Confessor as amended by the Conqueror, andmarried Matilda, daughter of the sainted Margaret, theEnglish Queen of Malcolm Canmore of Scotland. TheEnglish did not fail him, and he gave them in returnsevere, exacting, but stable government. Henry, like Rufus, had to restrain a hostile baronagewho would have preferred Roberts slack rule. Robert,Henrys returning from the East, invaded England; struggle with but the brothers met, and Henry, for an un-theharonage. (jisputed title to England, gave up all claimto X
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . aranteed to them the laws ofEdward the Confessor as amended by the Conqueror, andmarried Matilda, daughter of the sainted Margaret, theEnglish Queen of Malcolm Canmore of Scotland. TheEnglish did not fail him, and he gave them in returnsevere, exacting, but stable government. Henry, like Rufus, had to restrain a hostile baronagewho would have preferred Roberts slack rule. Robert,Henrys returning from the East, invaded England; struggle with but the brothers met, and Henry, for an un-theharonage. (jisputed title to England, gave up all claimto Xormandy. Then he turned on the restless among them was Robert of Bellesme, a monster ofcruelty, whose fiendish torture of men and women andchildren reminds us of the worst of the Italian despots ofa later age. Henry fought him with the support of thoseof low degree, for he could trust few of the barons, andat last he drove Robert out of the country. The struggleshifted to N^ormandy, where Duke Robert was guilty of THE BRITISH NATION. gross misrule, and where, too, he received those who fledfrom Henrys wrath in England. At Tenchebrai, in Nor-mandy, in 1106, an English army underHenry met and defeated the Norman hostunder Eobert. The conquered race mightnow lift up its head. Hastings was avenged;Normandy became a dependency of Eng-land, and Duke Eobert spent liis remainingtwenty-eight years in captivity. The Church alone still struggled for in-dependence. Anselm was firm in asserting„ , , her full right to control her Henrys qnarrel ^ • i -i tt with Anselm OWn aiiairs, while Henry in- concerning sisted on appointing bishops, as his father and brother haddone. He claimed, too, the old right of in-vesting them with the pastoral staff and thering as symbols of their spiritual would not yield and was againobliged to go into exile. But a compro-mise was at last reached. Ecclesiastics werestill to do homage to the king for theirtemporal possessions, bu
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