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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 1530 — Chapter XVI · THE INTERREGNUM.[1503] October 15–December 25, 1066.

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Flor. Wig. 1066. “Iidem Comites ... cum eo se pugnam inituros promisere, sed ... suum auxilium ab eis retraxere et cum suo exercitu domum redierunt.” So William of Malmesbury, iii. 247; “Quod [their own election] frustra conati, Northanhimbriam discesserant, ex suo conjectantes ingenio numquam illuc Willelmum esse venturum.” The two accounts fill up gaps in each other, but there is no essential contradiction.

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