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c H a p. 2nd the garrison, to the number of 3000 men,iv. was put to the sword without mercy10S9. This success proved 2 signal to many other

parts of England , and gave the people an oppor-tunity of showing their malevolence to theNormans. Hereward , a nobleman in East-Anglia,celebrated for valour, assembled his followers,and taking shelter in the Ifie os Ely, made inroadson all the neighbouring country ", The Englishin the counties of Somerset and Dorset rose inarms, and assaulted Elontacute, the Normangovernor; while the inhabitants of Cornwal andDevon invested h'xeter, which , from the memoryof William’s clemency , still remained faithful tohim. Edric, the forester, calling in the assistanceof the Welsh , laid siege to Shrewsbury, and madebead against earl Brient and Fitz-Osberne , whocommanded in those quarters ". 1 he English

every where, repenting their former easy submis-sion, seemed determined to make by concertone great eflort for the recovery of their liberties,and for the expulsion of their oppressors.

W;LLIa;u, undismayed amidst this scene of con-fusion . assembled his forces, and animating themwith the prospect of new confiscations and forfeit-ures, he marched against the rebels in the north,whom he regarded as the most formidable, andwhose defeat he knew would strike a terror into

58 Order Vital. p. 513. stove den, p 451.

" Ingulf, p. 71. Chron. Abb. St. Petri de Burgo , p. 47.Order. Vital. p. 5 14.