Note 30 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES

So too we read of Torkesey, a little later on, that it suffered so 'severely as to suggest the idea that William met with some serious resistance at this point' (Ibid., iv. 217); while speaking of the 'Fall of Chester', Mr Freeman wrote: 'We know that the resistance which William met with in this his last conquest was enough to lead him to apply the same stern remedy which he had applied north of the Humber. A fearful harrying fell on city and shire, and on the lands round about' (Ibid., iv. 314-5).