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i>. who had also been disgusted by the Normans,they made an attempt, though without success ,on the garrison of Dover ", Edric, the Forester,whose possessions Jay on the banks of the Severne,being provoked at the depredations of someNorman captains in his neighbourhood, formedan alliance with Blethyn and Rowallan, two"Welsh princes; and endeavoured , with theirassistance, to repel force by force But thoughthese open hostilities were not very considerable,the disaffection was general among the Knghlh ,who had become sensible, though too late, oftheir defenceless condition, and began already toexperience those insults and injuries, which anation must always expect, that allows itself to bereduced to that abject situation. A secret conspiracyWas entered into, to perpetrate in one day a generalmassacre of the Normans, like that which hadformerly been executed upon the Danes; and thequarrel was become so general and national, thatthe vassals of earl Coxo, having desired him tohead them in an insurrection, and finding himresolute in maintaining his fidelity to William,put him to death as a traitor to his country.

The king, informed of these dangerous dishorntents, hastened over to England ; and by hispresence, and the vigorous mcasires which hepursued, disconcerted all the schemes of the

11 Gul. Gemet. p. 289. Order. Vital. p. 508. AngUa*Sacra, vol. i.p. 245. 32 Hoveden, p, 450. M. West.

p. 226. Sim. Dunelm. p. 197.