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A33327	The life & death of William, surnamed the Conqueror, King of England and Duke of Normandy, who dyed Anno Christi, 1087 by Samuel Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4534; ESTC R19248	24,316	47

he overcame Herald The Abbey of Selby in Yorkshire And a third near London called Saint Saviours He founded also the Priory of Saint Nicholas at Exeter and gave great Priviledges to Saint Martins Le Grand in London In Normandy he founded an Abby at Caen and he gave to the Church of Saint Stephens there two Mannors in Dorsetshire one in Devonshire an other in Essex much Land in Bark shire some in Norfolk an house in Woodstreet London with many Avowsions of Churches In his time Saint Pauls Church being burnt down Maurice Bishop of London began this which is now standing A work so admirable and stupendious that many thought it would never have been finished Towards the building of the East end of it the King gave the choice Stones of his Castle in the West end of the City in which place afterwards was founded a Monastery of Black Friers And after the death of Maurice Richard his next successor gave all the Rents of his Bishoprick towards the building of this Church yet the finishing of it was left to his successors About the same time William Bishop of Durham founded University Colledge in Oxford In the twentieth year of his Reign their happened so great a fire in London that from the West Gate to the East Gate it consumed all the Houses and Churches at which time as was said before Pauls Church was burnt down Burning Feavers also consumed the People Murrains devoured an infinite number of Cattel great Rains and Floods destroyed the Fruites of the Earth whence ensued a great Famine and by them the Hills were so softned and undermined that some of them fell and overwhelmed the Neighbouring Villages Tame Fowls as Hens Geese Peacocks c. fled into the Woods and Forests and turned wild Odo the Kings Brother Bishop of Bayeux hoping to obtain the Popedom had heaped up vast Treasures for the purchasing of it But as he was about to begin his journey he was seized upon by the King and imprisoned and his House being searched there were found such heaps of Gold as caused admiration in all that saw it and many of his Bags were drawn out of Rivers where they were laid full of Gold beaten to Powder King William wanting mony seized upon the Plate Jewels and Treasure within all the Monastries in England Pretending that the Rebels had conveyed their Riches into these Religous Houses as into Sanctuaries and priviledged places to defraud him thereof He made also all Bishopricks and Abbyes that held Baronies alwayes free before to contribute to his Wars and other occasions We left King William sick at Roan occasioned partly by heat and partly by the leap of his Horse which brake the inward Rim of his Belly And perceiving his approaching Death he made his Will wherein he commanded that all his Treasure should be distributed to Churches Ministers and the Poor appointing to each their several portions His Dukedom of Normandy he left to his eldest Son Robert to whom he had formerly given it His Kingdom of England he left to his second Son William And Henry his youngest Son surnamed Beauclark hearing himself neglected by his Father with tears said And what Father do you give me the King answered Five thousand pounds of Silver out of my Treasury But replied he what shall I do with the Treasure if I want an Habitation His Father answered Be patient my son and comfort thyself in God suffer quietly thy Elder Brothers to go before thee Robert shall have Normandy and William England but thou in time shalt have intirely all the honour that I have gotten and shalt excell thy Brethren in Riches and Power His Son William he sent away into England and by him Letters to Archbishop Lanfranc His Prisoners he commanded to be set at liberty and then dyed September the ninth in the fifty sixth year of his Dutchy the twenty first of his Kingdom and the sixty fourth of his age Anno Christi 1087. No sooner had this late Glorious Princes Soul left his Body but his Dead Corps was presently abandoned by his chiefest Followers who posted away every one to defend his own whilst his menial Servants despoiled him of his Armor Vessels Apparel and all princely furniture leaving his Dead Body naked upon the floor where it lay stinking till one Harluins a poor Country Knight at his own cost undertook to cary it to Caen unto Saint Stevens Church formerly founded by this King At his entrance into Caen the Monks came forth to meet him But at the very instant a sudden fire happening presently invaded a great part of the City whereupon his Hearse was forsaken by all every one applying himself to help to quench the fire After which being carried to Church and the Stone Coffin set ready which was to receive the Body one Ascelinus Fitz-Arthur stood up and forbad the burial saying This very place was the floor of my Fathers House which this dead Duke violently took from him and here upon part of my Inheritance founded this Church This ground therefore I challenge and in Gods behalf forbid that the Body of my Despoiler he covered in my Earth neither shall it be interred within the precincts of my right Whereupon they were forced to compound with him for a present sum of money and for one hundred pound weight of Silver afterwards to be paid and so the Exequies went forward But when the Corps came to be laid into the Tomb it proved too litle and the belly being pressed and not bowelled brake and with an intollerable stink so offended the by-standers that with great amazement they all hasted away and the poor Monks were left to shuffle up the Burial who also were glad when they gat to their Cells He was of an indifferent stature of a comly person of a good presence till his corpulency increasing with age made him unweildy of so strong a constitution that he was never sick till a litle before his Death His strength such that few men could draw his Bow Of wit ready and very Politick In Speech Eloquent Resolute in attempts In hazards valiant A great Souldier and very successful His Charters of an other tenour and very brief as may appear by one that run thus 1 William the third year of my Reign Give to thee Norman Hunter to me that art both leese and Deer The Hop and the Hopton and all the Bounds up and down Under Earth to Hell above the Earth to Heaven From me and mine to thee and thine As good and as faire as ever they mine wear To witness that this is sooth I bite the whitewax with my Tooth Before Jugg Maud and Marjery and my youngest Son Henry For a Bow and a broad Arrow when I come to hunt upon Yarrow His only wife was Mathilda or Maud Daughter to Baldwin the fifth surnamed the Gentle Earl of Flanders by whom he had Robert surnamed Curtois or Short Thighs who

following sailed into Normandy taking with him all the chief men of England who were likeliest to make a party against him in his absence As Edgar Etheling Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury the two great Earls Edwin and Morchar Frederick Abbot of Saint Albanes Agelnothus Abbot of Glastenbury Walteof Earl of Northumberland Roger Earl of Hertford Rainulph Earl of Cambridge Gospatrick Earl of Cumberland c. And in his absence which was all the Summer nothing was here attempted against him save that Edrick surnamed the Forester in the County of Hereford calling in the Welch to his assistance forraged the remoter borders of that County The rest of the Kingdom was quiet expecting what would become of this new World wherein as yet they found no great alteration their Laws and Liberties remaining the same they were and they might hope that by this accession of a new Province England would have her Dominion enlarged abroad and her profit not impaired at home King William having disposed his affairs in Normandy towards Winter returned into England where he had three sorts of men to satisfie 1. Such as had adventured their Lives and estates with him 2. Those of his own Countrey whose merits and propinquity looked for recompence whereof the number was very great 3. The people of England by whom he must now subsist wherein he had more to doe than in his Battel at Hastings seeing that all rewards with money must be raised out of the stock of the Kingdom which must needs be distastfull to the State in general and if he preferred any of his to dignities by displacing others it must needs bring very feeling grievances to the persons displaced But he thrust no great men out of their room but such as put themselves out by revolting after they had given their Fealty to him So that it seems he contented himself and his for the present only with what he found ready filling up their places who were slain in the Battel or fled away as many were with Herald's Sons out of the Kingdom Such of desert as he could not presently prefer he sent abroad into the Abbeys there to live till places fell void for them whereof twenty four he sent to the Abbey of Ely by which policy he not only lessened his Suitors at Court and eased the eye sore of the English but had a watch over the Clergy who were then of the greatest power in the Kingdom and might prevail much with the people But the English Nobility thinking that their splendor was darkned by the interposition of so many strangers and fearing that yet it would be further eclypsed Conspired together and fled some into Scotland and others into Denmark to try if by forraign aid they could recover themselves Amongst whom Edgar Etheling with his Mother and two Sisters intending for Hungary where he was born was driven into Scotland where he was kindly entertained by Malcolin the third whose former sufferings in exile had taught him to pity others in the like distress and whom also it concerned to look to his own now his neighbours House was on fire This induced him also to make a League with Edgar and to tie it the stronger he took to wife Margret the sister of Edgar a very virtuous Lady by whom the blood of our antient Kings was preserved and conjoyned with the Normans in King Henry the second and so became English again Edgar being thus in Scotland there repared to him the Earls Edwin and Morchar Hereward Gospatrice Siward and others and shortly after Stigand and Aldrid the two Archbishops with diverse of the Clergy who in that third year of King William's Reign raised great commotions in the North and sought most eagerly to recover their lost Country But it now proved too late the King having setled the Government of the Kingdom so that instead of prevailing they gave advantage to the Conquerour to make himself more than he was For all oppositions made by Subjects against their Soveraigns do if they succeed not tend much to their advancement and nothing gave deeper rooting to the Normans here then the petty revolts made by scattered Troops in several places begun without Order and followed without resolution King William foreseeing new stirs from Scotland sent to Malcolme to deliver up to him his enemy Etheling which if he refused he threatned him with Wars Malcolme returned answer That it was unjust and wicked especially in a Prince to betray to his enemy one that came to his Court for protection especially being now so nearly allied to him William thus disappointed feared a dangerous Rebellion in his Kingdom to prevent which he built four strong Castles One at Hastings A second at Lincoln A third at Nottingham And a fourth at York in all which he placed strong Garrisons And disarming the English he commanded every Housholder to put out both fire and candle at eight a clock at night at which hour he appointed that in every Town a Bell should be rung called by the French Coverfew or Cover fire to prevent nightly tumults which otherwise might arise Then did he give the Earldom and all the Lands that Edwin held in York-shire to Allain Earl of Britaine The Archbishoprick of Conterbury he conferred on Lankfranc Abbot of Caen. That of Tork upon Thomas his Chaplaine and all the rest of the English which were out in Rebellion had their places supplied by the Normans Shortly after Goodwin and Edmund the sons of the late King Herald coming with some Forces out of Ireland landed in Summersetshire and fought with Adnothus one of King William's Captains whom they slew with many others and taking great booties in Cornwall and Devonshire returned back into Ireland Exeter also thought to shake off the Norman yoak And Northumberland to recover their former liberties took Armes against whom the King sent Robert Cumin and himself went against Exeter and besieged it and at last the Citizens opened their Gates and submitted to his mercy the Ring-leaders escaping into Flanders But in the North Cumin lying secure in Durham was suddenly in the night surprised by Edgar Etheling and his followers who slew Cumin and all his Normans being about seven hundred one onely escaping to carry the ill newes to King William During these stirs in England the English fugitives in Denmark so far prevailed with King Swaine that he sent a strong Navy of three hundred ships well fraught with Souldiers under his two Sons Harold and Canute who arriving in Humber marched to York to whom also Edgar and his associats out of Scotland joyned themselves At whose approach the Citizens were so terrified that they set fire on the suburbs and the flame by an high wind was driven over the wall whereby a great part of the City was consumed together with the Cathedral Church and a famous Library of great worth and the Garrison of Normans consisting of 3000. were all slain This so