Capitolo 13
soon later. William interpreted this reference of the election to Edgar
for confirmation as an action of the hostility to him, and it fined the new one
abbot heavily, but to us the accident is of value as evidence of the
character of the movement that tried to find a national king in this
last male of the line of Cerdic.
From Canterbury the army invading directly advanced on London and takings
on a position in his/her neighbourhood. From this station a body of five
one hundred horsemen were expeditious ahead in to reconnoitre the approaches to the
city, and the second battle of the conquest followed, if we can call that
a battle that seems to have been unilateral only. In every case, the
citizens intended to offer battle, and it crossed the river and advanced
against the enemy in regular formation, but the Norman riders shortly did
job of the battalions of citizen, and it drove again them in the city with
great butchery. The suburb on the southern bank of the Thames fell in the
hands of the enemy that it burned completely at least a part of him. William
however it didn't earn further success to this point. London was not yet
ready to submit, and the river seems to have been an impracticable barrier.
To find a crossing the Norman March was continued on the river the,
country that suffers first as to look for some army. The desired
crossing was found to Wallingford, not far in Oxford and almost fifty
miles above of London. What he had been able to cross the nearest river the city
what this, if he had desired, it seems probable, and the considerations of
strategy is able very probable you/he/she has governed the movements of William. Particularly
it is probable that this is the case if he had learned that Edwins and Morcar, with
their army, had abandoned the new king and you/he/she had retired toward north as some of
the best of modern researchers has believed, although on that that is certainly
not the best of the evidence. If this pits so, a duration is able a little anymore certainly
convinces the Londoners that subjugation was the best policy and the best