The Making of the English Nation (B.C. 55-1135)

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The Making of the English Nation (B.C. 55-1135)
Robertson, Charles Grant, Sir, 1869-1948. Ed
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The English were not really hard to rule, as their power was already broken by the wide-spread confiscation of their land; and in the presence of the Norman barons, together with the numerous castles which both they and the king erected, there were ample means for controlling any rising. It was the Normans who constituted the real danger. I'hough William had refused to continue the great Anglo-Saxon ealdormanries, he had early in his reign created three or four analogous smaller earldoms, in Du
...rham, Chester, and Shropshire, which were known as Palatine earldoms, and in these the earls were as powerful as Godwin or Harold had been in the old pre- Conquest days, though of course on a smaller scale. But after the rebellion of 1075 he ceased to add to their number, and as those already created lay on the frontier of Wales and Scotland, they were not so dangerous, and their rulers did good work in wrestling with the lawless The Palatine population on the Marches. William was care- earidoms.

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