Capitolo 70
the last resistance that can have called in some sense organized was to a
end.
The easy pacification comparatively of the earth, the first subjugation to
their fate of so strongly a nation, was in any small degree helped by the
completeness with which the country was already busy from Norman
colonies, if we can call them this way. Probably in front of the surrender of Ely
every important city was under the immediate superintendence of some Norman
baron, with a strength of his really. In all him strategically the important places
strengthened places had been built and regular garrisons put. Also the
districts of country had to a great extension been busy in a similar way.
It is not really probable that as late as 1072 some considerable area in
England had escaped the wide sequestrations. Everywhere the Norman ones had
seemed to take possession of his/her feud, to establish new tenants or to
hands the old ones in new relationships with him, to systematize for the
administration of his/her feuds, and to go away behind him the agents that were
responsible to him for the good behavior of business. If he did but
little changes in the economic organization of his/her ownership, and disturbed
the class that he/she works but slightly or not to everybody, he would give a breadth
district a vivid impression of the strength of the new order and the
desperation of some resistance.
Norman families already that were to do so a lot of of the history of the
next centuries, it was rooted in the earth. Montfort and Mortimer; Percy,
Beauchamp and Mowbray; Ferrets from the black feet and Lace; Beaumont, Mandeville and
Grantmesnil; Clare, Bigod and Bohun; and many others of peer or almost
equal name. All these were still as of none taller of baronial line, but if
we could have trust in the reporters, we should be able to extend in sum
a considerable list of earldoms that William had established from this
date or soon later, in a lot of parts of England, and in these it was
other great names. According to this evidence, his/her two half brothers, the