A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 21

makeweight in an equilibrium of strengths adversary. Henry that I offer for London
support from the concession of a notable rental;  for, it assisted from the order
and communications with the Continent raised by Norman rule commerce,
you/he/she was starting to bloom and city to grow. London was already
Winchester that outdistances in their common ambition to be the capital of the
kingdom, and the support of other cities and he started to be worth
buying from concessions of local government, more especially as them
encouragement offered another control on feudal magnates. Henry, also,
appealed a great to the feeling English Matilda marrying himself/herself/itself the,
nephew of Edmund Ironside, and avenging the battle of
Hastings through a conquest of Normandy from his/her brother Robert,
effected partly from troops of English.

But the order that the three Norman sovereigns evolved out of chaos,
still it was quota more to vigour personal theirs that to the strength of the
administrative machinery that they tried to develop;  and although that
apparatus kept on working during the anarchy that followed, it was able
you don't brake the feudal barons, when the crown was disputed among
His/her daughter Matilda of Henry and his/her nephew Stephen. The barons, indeed,
you/he/she had been successful in clinching their baronial joke on the people
what the kings had been in clinching a monarchic joke on the barons;
and nothing illustrates more vividly the absolute subjection of Anglo-
Saxons that the fact that the conquerors could afford to lacerate each
other asunder for nineteen years (1135-1154) without the least one
you try from their subjects to throw away their tyranny. There
it was not still nation English;  every feudal magnate did that with which he arranged
his/her really without fear of reality or popular revenge, and for once in
In every case, history English the gentlemen vindicated their independence.
The church was the only other body that drew profit from the conflict;  among
his/her portals and his/her courts there was some law and it orders, of the peace and