item: #1 of 4
          id: 25848
      author: Abbott, Jacob
       title: William the Conqueror Makers of History
        date: None
       words: 56024
      flesch: 64
     summary: At the proper time, Duke Robert came in, dressed in his pilgrim's garb, and leading young William by the hand. King Henry might himself lay claims to the vacant duchy, with a view of bestowing it upon some favorite of his own, in which case he might confine young William in one of his castles, in an honorable, but still rigid and hopeless captivity, or treacherously destroy his life by the secret administration of poison.
    keywords: army; battle; body; brother; case; castle; country; course; day; days; duke; edward; emma; enemy; england; english; fact; father; force; harold; henry; king; length; life; manner; marriage; matilda; means; men; normandy; place; possession; power; realm; respect; robert; rollo; son; time; tostig; way; william; years; young
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 44021
      author: Round, John Horace
       title: Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
        date: None
       words: 197965
      flesch: 72
     summary: Edid reginæ'.[48] This is, of course, the same entry, only that here our author changed pounds into houses, and _libras_ into _liberæ_. In his account of the attack on Dover in 1067, Mr Freeman argued, 'from the distinct mention of _oppidum_ and _oppidani_ in Orderic', that it was not the castle, as supposed, but the town that was attacked.
    keywords: 3/4; abbas; abbatis de; abbey; abbot; account; accuracy; acres; argument; assessment; authorities; authority; baldwin; barons; basset; battle; beauchamp; bishop; book; brother; cambridgeshire; car; carta; cartulary; carucates; case; castle; charter; chester; chief; chronicle; church; cinque; close; com; conclusion; conqueror; conquest; counties; county; course; court; crown; cum; d.b; danegeld; date; days; de buci; de ely; de eodem; de feodo; de ferr[ariis; de grentmesnil; de i.; de la; de laci; de moubray; de novo; de rege; death; debitum; difficulty; dimidiam; district; document; domesday; domesday book; dominio; doubt; eadem; earl; east; edward; ejus; england; english; entries; entry; error; essex; est; et de; et dim; et dimidia; et et; et i.; et iii; et v.; etc; evidence; exeter; existence; explanation; fact; family; father; fees; feudal; feudo; fief; figures; filius; fitz; footnote; form; french; geoffrey; geoffrey de; gilbert; gives; great; ground; half; hand; harold; hastings; henry; henry de; henry ii; hida; hidam et; hides; hidæ; hidæ et; hill; historical; history; holding; homines; house; hugh de; hundreds; i.c.c; i.e.; ibid; ibidem; iii; iiii; iij; importance; information; inquisitio; instance; john; july; king; knights; lands; lay; left; leicester; leicestershire; les; liber; lincoln; line; list; little; manors; marmion; matter; mention; military; milites; militum; mr archer; mr de; mr eyton; mr freeman; names; narrative; need; new; non; norman; number; orderic; original; page; palisade; paper; passage; payment; place; point; portion; ports; position; potuerunt; present; pro; professor; proof; quam; question; qui; quod; ralf; ranulf; read; recedere; record; regis; returns; review; rex; richard; richard de; right; robert de; robertus; roger de; roll; royal; scutage; seal; second; sed; service; servitium; sheriff; shield; shows; sic; soca; son; sqq; statement; stephen; stubbs; studies; subject; sunt; supra; survey; system; t.r.e; tapestry; tenant; tenet; tenet de; terms; terra; text; theory; time; total; unit; value; vendere; version; viii; villa; virg; virgate; wace; wall; walter de; way; west; wife; willelmus de; william de; winchester; worcester; words; work; writ; writer; year; | |
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 48602
      author: Armitage, Ella S.
       title: The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.
        date: None
       words: 136498
      flesch: 77
     summary: For as the instances cited in the Appendix will prove, we constantly find the words _castrum_ and _castellum_ used for the same town, sometimes even in the same paragraph. This case lends some support to the conjecture of Dr Christison, that the Saxons gave the name of _chester_ to towns which they had themselves fortified.[71] The mediæval walls of Worcester were probably more extensive than Ethelfleda's borough, of which no trace remains.
    keywords: 12th; 13th; acres; anglo; appendix; arch; area; bailey castle; bank; bishop; book; borough; brut; building; burh; cal; case; castellum; castle; castle acre; castle ditch; castle hill; castrum; century; charter; chronicle; church; city; clark; close; colchester castle; conquest; course; court; danes; danish; date; description; ditch; domesday; doubt; earl; earthworks; east; edward; edward i.; enclosure; end; england; english; ethelfleda; evidence; fact; family; feet; fig; form; fortifications; fortified; great; half; henry; henry i.; high; history; house; hugh; iii; inner; john; keeps; king; lands; late; list; manor; masonry; mediæval; mention; motte; near; new; norman castle; normans; north; norwich castle; original; orpen; outer; outside; period; pipe; place; plan; present; reign; remains; richard; risen; river; robert; roger; rolls; roman; round; royal; saxon; says; scotland; second; shows; site; small; south; square; stone castle; survey; tells; time; tower; town; type; value; vol; wales; wall; welsh; william; william i.; wooden; word; work; writer; years; york castle
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 8745
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
        date: None
       words: 131921
      flesch: 80
     summary: In those days great men were easy accessible, and one of the ushers, on receiving the message from the prior, at once led the boys to an apartment in which the duke was sitting. Or rather, Agnes, her mother put in, they should do so; but in truth, looking round at the cruel wars we have had in Normandy, I do not see that men have been more gentle or courteous than they would have been had they never taken the vows or had knightly spurs buckled on; and in truth it seems to me from the news of what has taken place beyond the sea, that in the civil troubles they have had in England men are much more gentle with each other, and foes are far more easily reconciled than with us in Normandy, who are supposed to be bound by the laws of chivalry.
    keywords: arms; army; attack; battle; beorn; boy; burg; castle; country; court; day; duke; earl; earl harold; england; english; father; force; good; half; hand; harold; having; head; hour; king; left; life; london; lord; man; master; men; morning; news; night; norman; normandy; osgod; people; place; return; round; thanes; thought; time; way; welsh; william; work; wulf; young
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