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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE NORMAN CONQUEST. 1. On Cnut's death there was a dispute who should be king. Cnut had willed that his son Harold should rule in England, and that Harthacnut, his son Harold and . -. i tj i T i T. Harthacnut, by Emma, should rule in Denmark. But 1035-1042. Emma wished that her son Harthacnut, and not Harold, should rule in England. The mightiest man among the English, Godwin?whom Cnut had made Earl of Wessex in 1020?was of the same mind as Emma, and so the South of England did not at first hold to Harold. But Harold died in 1040, and then Harthacnut was king over the whole land. He sent for his half-brother Edward, the son of Emma and Ethelred, to come to England from Normandy; and when Harthacnut died suddenly in 1042, Godwin brought it about that men chose Edward as king. 2. Edward married Godwin's daughter, and was at first friendly to Godwin and followed his advice in all Edward the things. But Edward had been brought up Confessor in Normandy, and many Normans came and the Nor-, ., 1T,,, mans, 1042- over to England and urged Edward to do 1052- things in England in the way in which they were done in Normandy. Also he put many Normans in bishoprics and high places in the land. The English did not like this, but wanted to hold by their old customs, and be ruled by men of their own race. So there were two parties in England, that of the king and his Norman friends, and that of the English, who looked to Godwin as their leader. At last, in 1051, the ill-feeling between the English and Normans led to a quarrel between the men of Dover and the followers of Eustace, Count of Boulogne, the king's brother-in-law, who hadbeen to visit him. The men of Dover drove him out of their town. The king was angry at this, and bade Godwin punish them...
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