238 HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

c ii a l>. they were obliged to conceal their sentiments;ill. and the new prince, taking a general silence for con-sent , and sounding his title on the supposed suffragesof the people, which appeared unanimous, was,on the day immediately succeeding Edward’sdeath, crowned and anointed King, by Aldred ,archbishop of York. The whole nation seemedjoyfully to acquiesce in his elevation.

The first symptoms of danger, which theking discovered, came from abroad, and fromhis own brother, Tosti, who had submitted to avoluntary banishment in Flanders. Enraged atthe successful ambition of Harold, to which he him-self had fallen a victim, he filled the court of Bald-win with complaints of the injustice, which he hadsuffered : He engaged the interest of that familyagainst his brother: He endeavoured to formintrigues with some of the discontented nobles inEngland: He sent his emissaries to Norway, inorder to rouse to arms the free-booters of that king-dom, and to excite their hopes of reaping advantagefrom the unsettled state of affairs on the usurpa-tion of the new king: And that he might renderthe combination more formidable, he made a jour-ney to Normandy; in expectation that the duke,who had married Matilda, another daughter ofBaldwin , would , in revenge of his own wrongs,as well as those of Tosti, second, by his counselsand forces , the projected invasion of England

The duke of Normandy , when he first received

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Order. Vitalis, p. 493.