Note 75 — WILLIAM I.
Reading edition
"Pro more suo, extorsit multum pecuniæ suis subditis ubicunque haberet aliquem pretextum, sive jure sive aliter." Chron. Sax. p. 187. In another place the writer says, he extorted money, "partim justè, maximâ verò ex parte injustè, rebus parùm urgentibus." p. 191.