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" It is hardly superstitious to point out, alike with ancient and with modern authorities, that the New Forest became a spot fatal to William's house, and that, after the death of Waltheof, his old prosperity forsook him. Nothing indeed- occurred to loosen... "
The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of Eadward the ... - Page 113
by Edward Augustus Freeman - 1873
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 121

1865 - 632 pages
...authorities, that the New Forest, the scene of William's blackest inhumanity, became a spot fatal to his house, and that, after the death of Waltheof, his...Conqueror had for the first time to undergo defeat. The victor of Valesdune and Senlac found his death-wound in an inglorious quarrel, in the very commission...
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Heads of an Analysis of English and of French History, for the use of schools

Dawson William Turner - 1865 - 184 pages
...authorities, that the New Forest, the scene of William's blackest inhumanity, became a spot fatal to his house, and that, after the death of Waltheof, his...Conqueror had for the first time to undergo defeat. The victor of Valesdune and Senlac found his death-wound in an inglorious quarrel, in the very commission...
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Through Normandy

Katharine Sarah Macquoid - 1874 - 592 pages
...convenient pretext. It is hardly superstitious to point out, alike with ancient and with modem authorities, that the New Forest became a spot fatal to William's...defeat. At last he found his deathwound in an inglorious quarrel, in the personal commission of cruelties which aroused the indignation of his own age, and...
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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of Eadward the ...

Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 758 pages
...pretext. It is hardly superstitious to point out, alike with ancient and with modern authorities, 1 that the New Forest became a spot fatal to William's...Waltheof, his old prosperity forsook him. Nothing indeed happened to loosen his hold on England; Crimes and but his last years were spent in bickerings with...
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The Standard authors reader, arranged and annotated by the editor of 'Poetry ...

Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...convenient pretext. It is hardly superstitious to point out, alike with ancient and with modern authorities, that the New Forest became a spot fatal to William's...defeat. At last he found his deathwound in an inglorious quarrel, in the personal commission of cruelties which aroused the indignation of his own age ; and...
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