[29] 'Militibus crudeliter et contumeliose illuserant quos ipse de Normannia miserat et tempestas ad portum illorum appulerat.'
[30] So too we read of Torkesey, a little later on, that it suffered so 'severely as to suggest the idea that William met with some serious resistance at this point' (Ibid., iv. 217); while speaking of the 'Fall of Chester', Mr Freeman wrote: 'We know that the resistance which William met with in this his last conquest was enough to lead him to apply the same stern remedy which he had applied north of the Humber. A fearful harrying fell on city and shire, and on the lands round about' (Ibid., iv. 314-5).
[31] 'The Conqueror, faithful to his fearful oath, now gave the first of that long list of instances of indifference to human suffering', etc. (Ibid., ii. 285).
[32] 'At Ely, as at Alençon, the Conqueror felt no scruple against inflicting punishments which to our notions might seem more frightful than death itself' (Ibid., iv. 476).
[33] Ibid., iv. 160.
[34] English Towns and Districts.
[35] Exeter (1887), p. 32.
[36] Ibid., pp. 43-4.
[37] Ibid., p. 44.
[38] Norm. Conq., iv. 162.