The History of the Norman Conquest of England: the Reign of Harold And the ...
The History of the Norman Conquest of England: the Reign of Harold And the ...
Freeman Edward Augustus
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No force was ready on the bridge of Wal- lingford to bar the approach of the invader. There is even reason to think that the chief man of the place, perhaps the Sheriff of the neigh- bouring shire of Oxford, Wiggod of Wallingford, favoured the progress of the invader. He had been high in favour with Eadward, and was afterwards high in favour with William, and a son of his lived to die fighting for William in a more worthy cause.^ However this may be. the account in William of Poitien. Guy's des...criptioQ of Westminster (665) is worth notice; *' Dimidix letx^ spatio distabat ab urbe Regia regafis, ante decora nimts, Fertuff ab antiquis qute Quest vocitata colonis. Post Petri nomen duxit ab ecclesi4. Providos banc sedem tibi Rex elegit ad sedem. Quae sibi complacuit jure nee immertto: Nam, vduti patrum testantur gesta pri- onim» Ex solito Reges hie diadema feront.*' Guy has a little exaggerated the antiquity of Westminster as a royal dwelling-place. 1 Will. Pict. 141. " Praraoissi illo equites Normanni quingcnti egressam contra se aciem rcfiigere intra miBnia impigre com- pellunt, terga esBdentet.
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