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with their sacred books and relics, it accompanied the deputation that
gotten by the king the best promises that you/he/she had been hoped for. For some
reason William departed from his/her usual custom of the gravity to those that
withstood to. He neglected their misbehavior, it didn't order sequestrations, and
situated watches also in the gates to hold out the soldiers that are able
the ownership of the citizens is helped to with some
violence. But as usual he selected a place for a castle inside the walls,
and he/she left a strength of chosen riders under faithful command, to complete
the fortification and to form the garrison. The mother of Harold, Gytha, left
the city in front of his/her surrender, and it finally found a shelter in Saint Omer,
in Flanders. The children of Harold also, if theirs were in Exeter, it did them
you escape first his/her fall.
After having subjugated Exeter, William marched with his/her army in Cornwall, and
puts down without the difficulty whatever resistance that he has founded there. The
the sequestration of piece of ground of ground lost without doubt was an object of its March
through the earth, and the greatest part of these was given on his
his/her own brother of half, Robert Conta of Mortain, the beginning of that that grew
lately in the great earldom of Cornwall. In everybody, the concessions that
Robert was made to you/he/she has been valued to 797 feuds, the greatest they did
to some one as the result of the Conquest. Of these, 248 feuds were in
Cornwall, practically the whole county; 75 in Dorset and 49 in
Devonshire. This was almost in himself a principality, and it is almost alone
enough to disprove the policy attributed to William to sprinkle around
the country the great piece of ground of ground that he granted. So powerful a possession
it was the earldom that was founded upon this concession that after a duration the
policy that had been followed in Normandy, in respect to the great one
counties, seemed also the only wise man in this case, and it were not
permission to pass out some immediate family of the king up to that in the