Category: History - British

The Normans in England (1066-1154)

Bland, Alfred Edward, 1881-1916 [Compiler]; Bell, Kenneth (Kenneth Norman), 1884-1951 [Editor]; Winbolt, S. E. (Samuel Edward), 1868-1944 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 33,758 words

And in the same year before harvest the holy minster of St. Paul, the bishop’s see in London, was burned, and many other minsters, and the greatest and fairest part of all that borough. So also, at the same time, wellnigh every chief town in all England was burned. Ah! a ruefu...

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1. did. They gathered unjust tolls, and many other unjust things they did,

And in the same year before harvest the holy minster of St. Paul, the bishop’s see in London, was burned, and many other minsters, and the greatest and fairest part of all that...

2. did. When they were there gathered, the king bade them that they should

choose them an archbishop of Canterbury, whomsoever they would. Then spake the bishops among themselves and said that never more would they have a monkish man to be archbishop o...