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chat. could support such tyranny, without participating,III. in some degree, of the infamy attending it; thatthe Northumbrians , accustomed to a legal adminis-tration , and regarding it as their birthright,were willing to submit to the king, but required agovernor who would pay regard to their rightsand privileges; that they had been taught bytheir ancestors, that death was preferable toservitude , and had taken the field determinedto perish, rather than softer a renewal of thoseindignities , to which they had so long beenexposed; and they trusted, that Harold, onreflection, would not defend in another thatviolent conduct, from which he himself, in hisown government, had always kept at so greata. distance. This vigorous remonstrance wasaccompanied with such a detail of facts, so wellsupported, thatHarold found it prudent to abandonhis brother’s cause; and returning to Edward,he persuaded him to pardon the Northumbrians,and to confirm Morcar in the government. Heeven married the sister of that nobleman 50 ; andby his interest procured Edwin, the youngerbrother, to be elected into the government ofIMercia. Tosti in rage departed the kingdom,and took shelter in slanders with earl Baldwin,his father-in-law.

By this marriage, Harold broke all measureswith the duke of Normandy ; and William clearly

“ Order. Vitalis, p. 493,

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