| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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