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Now who willshrink from thy side? Publish thy ban, not in Normandy alone, but inevery region and realm where the Church is honoured. This is thefirst war of the Cross. " Then indeed was it seen--that might of the Church! Soon as were madeknown the sanction and gifts of the Pope, all the continent stirred asto the blast of the trump in the Crusade, of which that war was theherald. From Maine and from Anjou, from Poitou and Bretagne, fromFrance and from Flanders, from Aquitaine and Burgundy, flas...hed thespear, galloped the steed. The robber-chiefs from the castles nowgrey on the Rhine; the hunters and bandits from the roots of the Alps;baron and knight, varlet and vagrant, --all came to the flag of theChurch, --to the pillage of England. For side by side with the Pope'sholy bull was the martial ban:--"Good pay and broad lands to every onewho will serve Count William with spear, and with sword, and withcross-bow. " And the Duke said to Fitzosborne, as he parcelled out thefair fields of England into Norman fiefs: "Harold hath not the strength of mind to promise the least of thosethings that belong to me.
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