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the clemency of the victor. Archil, a potent chap.nobleman in those parts imitated their example, jv.and delivered his son as a hostage for his st de- toss.

lity JI ;nor were the people, thus deserted bytheir leaders, able to make any farther resistance.

But the treatment, which William gave the chiefs,was very different from that which fell to thefit a re of their followers. He observed religiouslythe terms, which he had granted to the f rmer;and allowed them , for the present, to keep pos-session of their estates ; but he extended the rigorsof his confiscations over the latter, and gaveaway their lands to his foreign adventurers.

These , planted throughout the whole country,and in possession of the military power, lestEdwin and Mo rear, whom he pretended to spare,destitute of all support, and ready to fall, when-ever he should think proper to command theirruin. A peace, which he made with Malcolm,who did him homage for Cumberland, seemed,at the same time, to deprive them of all prospectof foreign assistance *\

The English were now sensible that their final K'gorsor _destruction was intended; and that, instead of a government,sovereign, whom they had hoped to gain bytheir submission, they had tamely surrenderedthemselves, without resistance, to a tyrant and aconqueror. Though the early confiscation ofHarold’s followers might seem iniquitous; beinginflicted on men who had never sworn fealty to

11 Order, Vital. p. 511. 11 Ibid.

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