Capitolo 16
kindly and with the good promises and Edgar particularly he embraced and
treated as a child.
This deputation from London, led from their nominal king, it came to offer
the crown to William. For him and for the Normans the decisive moment of
the consignment had now come. An answer defined must have done. According to
the account that we am following, some kind of suggestion of war of the Norman one and
the other barons and the leaders of the army seem to have been kept, and to
this suggestion William submitted the question if it were best to
now takes the crown, or to wait until the country was more entirely
subjugated and until his/her wife Matilda could be present to divide the honour
with him. This is the question that we am said you/he/she was proposed, but the
considerations that seem to have conducted less to the final bear of decision
on this that on the question if William should be king to everybody or
not. We have in front of this date any records of some formal decision of this
question. You/he/she had silently been understood undoubtedly by everybody; the crown was
more openly the object of the consignment; but the time now had
comes when the question was standing as an acute problem in front of William and before
his/her men and you/he/she must frankly have met. If the Duke of the Normans had to be
turned into the King of the English, you/he/she could only be done with the
I support faithful of his/her Norman followers; neither it is probably entirely it to that, in a
you so entirely affirm feudal as Normandy, the suzerains would be risked
to suppose so great an increase of line and the probable power without the
express approval of his/her vassals, in the carelessness of that that was certainly the
feudal and usual practice. The decision of the suggestion was favourable, and
William accepted the crown. Immediately a strength of men was expeditious in before
to take military possession of the city and to build, after the Norman one
you shape, some kind of defenses there, and to make appropriate preparation
for the arrival of the king that had to be. The interval that William has occupied