The History of England from the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216)

George Burton Adams

Capitolo 15


From Wallingford William its comfortable March continued, while leaving a footstep
of the devastation behind him through Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and
Hertfordshire, where he became toward London southern. But the city was
it now convinced some impossibility of resistance and it was ready to produce
to the inevitable one. How neighbor was permitted to draw near first to the enemy
the footstep of made actual you/he/she was taken it is not rather sure. The
approved opinion generally, on the authority of reporters English is
what the embassy from London went to meet William to Berkhampsted,
thirty miles street, but if we could accept the suggestion that has been
it did how Small Berkhampsted was the understood place the distance,
it would agree better with the express affirmation of the chaplain, William
of Poitiers, in that the city was seen by the place of lecture.
It is hard to avoid to accept the affirmation of William, for him it is precisely
some kind of thing that the men of the army of the duke--what you/he/she had been this way
approaching himself/herself/itself from very to the city and thinking about his/her capture--it would be probable
to notice and to remember. It agrees better also with the probabilities
of the case. Still thirty miles were a sure distance, especially in
those days, and he/she would leave space a lot of duration to further debate and for the
unexpected to happen. It happened wherever the action of subjugation, was
in form complete and final for the city and for the principal men of
England. Edgar came to offer his/her useless and defective crown;  Aldred,
Archbishop of York, was to complete there the subjugation of the Church;
bishops of very he/she sees it was also present, and principal men of the state,
among who Edwin and Morcar are mentioned within one of the reporters that
it had first expeditious them house to the north. He is possibly right in the double
affirmations, and the earlses are returned for reconciling when them
it that resistance was without hope. These men that William has received more
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