Ontario High School History of England . yat Winchester, and, since the park near Winchester was small,he proceeded to add to it some of the surrounding do this he swept away the homes of many people, wholevillages, and even churches, and seemed to delight in theruin he wrought for his own selfish pleasure. The death of William the Conqueror.—It was whenworking destruction in France that William met his and the king of France quarrelled over the control ofthe territory known as the Vexin. While William lay atRouen, undergoing treatment for his unwieldy corpulence,a brutal s
Ontario High School History of England . yat Winchester, and, since the park near Winchester was small,he proceeded to add to it some of the surrounding do this he swept away the homes of many people, wholevillages, and even churches, and seemed to delight in theruin he wrought for his own selfish pleasure. The death of William the Conqueror.—It was whenworking destruction in France that William met his and the king of France quarrelled over the control ofthe territory known as the Vexin. While William lay atRouen, undergoing treatment for his unwieldy corpulence,a brutal sneer of the French king was reported to himHis wrath burst forth. He marched into the Vexin atharvest-time, destroyed the grain as it stood in the fields,and took and burned Mantes, the capital. As he rodethrough the desolated town his horse stumbled over burningembers, and he received a mortal injury. His mind wasclear to the last. He had always been sincerely rehgious, andnow, with the deep sense of sin, which is so profound a trait. 62 HISTORY OF ENGLAND of his age, he saw and acknowledged tnc evil in his ordered Mantes to be rebuilt from his immense hoards,left gifts to charity in expiation for the l)loodshed he hadcaused in England, and admitted that he had no rightfulclaim to its crown. In those days, when a king died, eveiyone did what he liked until a new king made good hisauthority. Williams attendants stripped his body almostnaked, seized what they could, and rushed away to guardtheir own interests. The dead Conqueror was carried toCaen for burial. During the service a man named Ascelineshouted out that William had robbed him of the land inwhich the interment was to take place, and the servicestopped until the claim was settled. The incidents arecharacteristic of the age. Everywhere we meet violence,but we meet, too, the constraining power of a religion thathas dire terrors for the sinful. 1. The of William Rufus William Rufus « the Red King, 10
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