Capitolo 78
it that it broke on a part of England of year 1075; and the first one
feudal insurrection in history English had put down, as more serious
you/he/she was destined to witness the autumn of feudalism from the officers of the king,
and the earth's men in the absence of the king. To determine the causes of
this insurrection, we need to read among the lines of the history as it
there is said from the writers of that and the next age. Elaborate reasons for
their hostility to the government of William had put in the mouths of the
conspirators within one of these writers, but these would not intend anything more
what an a general affirmation that the king was a very severe and austere rule,
if it were for the most specific accusation that he had compensated
those that had very inadequately fought for him, and through had avarice
later it also reduced the value of these gifts. [10] a passage in a letter
of Lanfranc to one of the leaders of the rebellion, Roger, Earl of
Hereford, writing after the dissatisfaction of Roger had evidently been known
but first some open rebellion, gives perhaps us a key to the last part of
this complaint. [11] he tells him that the king, revoking that we inflict, first
orders, have directed its sheriffs not to hold some more declarations in the earl
unloadings until him you/he/she can return and you/he/she can feel the case between the sheriffs and he.
In a duration when the profits of a court were important to the gentleman that
it had the right to hold him/it, the entrance of the officers of the king in a
"the liberty" to feel there cases as the representative of the king, and to
its profit, would naturally seem to the baron whose income was stricken a
the diminution of the value of his/her feud, because of the avarice of the king. Nothing
you/he/she could show us best the natural attitude to a strong king toward feudal
immunity that the facts that these words of Lanfranc implicate, and
although we know about any serious trouble that rises from this reason for a
century or more, it is clear that the real perspective of the matter never