Public school history of England and Canada, with introduction, hints to teachers, and brief examination questions . bishops, abbots, earls, and barons, whichmet at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide. 4. Risings against William I.—William, though made king,had, so far, gained possession of only a portion of the kingdom. All the north and west of Englandwas as yet unsubdued. After his coro-nation, William went on a visit tohis dukedom of Normandy, and inhis absence appointed as regents hishalf-brother, Odo, bishop of Bayeux,and William. FiTZ-OsBORN, a trustedNorman follower. While the kingwas g
Public school history of England and Canada, with introduction, hints to teachers, and brief examination questions . bishops, abbots, earls, and barons, whichmet at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide. 4. Risings against William I.—William, though made king,had, so far, gained possession of only a portion of the kingdom. All the north and west of Englandwas as yet unsubdued. After his coro-nation, William went on a visit tohis dukedom of Normandy, and inhis absence appointed as regents hishalf-brother, Odo, bishop of Bayeux,and William. FiTZ-OsBORN, a trustedNorman follower. While the kingwas gone the people rose in rebellion ;and on his return he proceeded, withWilliam the Conqueror. great Cruelty, to put down the most formidable risings were in Northumberland, where, atvarious times, the Scottish king, Malcolm III., the youth Edgarthe Atheling, who was to have been king in place of William, Danes, who had come with a large fleet from Denmark, all keptap a bitter strife. Williams castle of York, meanwhile, fell intothe hands of the revolted English, and 3,000 Normans who formed. 1087.] THE FEUDAL SYSTEM. 19 the garrison w-ere murdered. For this there was a frightful reckon-ing. First of all, William got rid of the Danes by bribing them togo back to Denmark. Then he turned upon the English, recoveredYork, and put the whole country to the sword. Thepeasantry^ were mercilessly slaughtered, the to\\-ns and harrj^^g^of thevillages were burnt, the crops were destroyed, and, for ^JJ^g^^ ^^ J^ggthe space of sixty miles, the countiy between the H um-ber and the Tyne was made a desert. More than 100,000 peopleare said to have perished from Williams vengeance. In otherparts of England he had trouble for a time. A gallant stand wasmade against him by Hereward, a Saxon thane, who hadestablished, in the Isle of Ely, a camp of refuge for Englishfugitives. But this resistance William quickly put down. TheScottish king and Edgar were also forced to submit.
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