Capitolo 69
northerly fact of the Humber that the tide had turned. The first action of the
allies were the looting and the destruction of the abbey and city of
Peterborough shortly after the reunion of the suggestion of Windsor. The
Abbot English Brand was dead the preceding autumn, and William had
named in his/her place a Norman, Turold, separate as a good fighter
and a hard rule. These qualities had conducted the king to select him/it for this
special place, and the to plunder of the abbey, till now as it was not mere
plundering, it seems an in conformity with action of spite. Danish seem to have
for first is prepared for tender Peterborough, but Turold has had to bring
them proposals of the peace from William that it incited them to withdraw to
hard from England with the sure possession of their looting.
Hereward and his/her men brought defeasible void that year but others
gradually gathered in to them, included of the men of note. Edwin and
Morcar once more you/he/she had changed sides, or you/he/she was run away by the court of William to
you escape there some danger. Edwin had been killed in to try to make his/her way
I cross to Scotland, but Morcar was united to the refugees in Ely. Episcopalian
Ethelwin of Durham was there also, and a northern thane, Barn of Siward. In
1074 William advanced in person against the "field of shelter." A fleet was
it sent to stop a side while the army attacked from the other. It was
you find necessary to build a road raised again long for the approach of the army and
around this job the fiercest fight happened; but its building was able
is not stopped, and in the moment in which he was ended the defenders of the island
him surrendered. The leaders were imprisoned, Morcar in Normandy for the rest
of the kingdom of William. The common men were mutilated and you/they were released. Hereward
escaped to sea, but later it probably submitted to William and it received
his/her favour. Edric the Wild one that you/he/she had remained from very indomitable on the Welsh
confinements, had produced also in front of the surrender of the island of Ely, and