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changed, and finally as infringements on the baronial courts it became one
of the causes of the first great advance toward the constitutional liberty,
the Great Paper.
This letter of Lanfranc to Roger of Hereford a more interesting is
illustration of his/her character and his/her diplomatic ability and show
us clearly as great it is due to be his/her utility to William. Although it
it is perfectly evident to us that he suspects the loyalty of Roger to be
tried seriously, there is not a word of suspect expressed in the
letter but the considerations most probable to hold him/it faithful it is strongly
exhorted. With the exception of the sentence on the sheriffs, and formal
sentences to the beginning and it ends, the letter works this way: The "our gentleman, the
king of the English, regards us and You all as faithful subjects of his
in who he has the great trust, and it commands us that as much as us is
able we should have care of his/her castles, so that not, what God dissuades, them
you/he/she should be betrayed to his/her enemies; because I ask to you, as I owe
asks, the dearrest child that, as God is witness, I love with my whole heart
and it desires to serve, and of whom father that I have loved as my soul that you take
such care of this matter and every fidelity to our gentleman the king that
You can have the encomium of God, and of him, and of all the good men. Taking
always in Your memory as Your glorious father he/she lived, and as faithfully
he served his/her gentleman, and with as great energy he acquired the a lot of things and
them kept with the great honour.... I should like to freely talk to you; if
this is Your wish, it made me know where we can meet and we can speak together of
Your business and of our gentleman the king. I am ready to go to satisfy her/it
everywhere you direct."
The letter didn't have effect. Roger seems to have been a man of violent
you temper, and there was also a woman in this case, although we don't know
what her she influenced the course of events. The insurrection is
says to have been determined on, and the details of action planned,