[*****]
[* Gul Pict. p. 206. Order. Vitalis, p. 503.]
[** Gul. Pict. p. 208. Order. Vitalis, p. 506.]
[*** Gul. Pict. p. 206.]
[**** Gul. Pict. p. 205.]
[***** Gul. Gemet. p. 288. Chron. Sax. p. 189. M.
West. p. 226. M. Paris, p. 9. Diceto, p. 482. This convent
was freed by him from all episcopal jurisdiction. Monast.
Anglic, tom. i. p. 311, 312.]
He introduced into England that strict execution of justice, for which
his administration had been much celebrated in Normandy; and even during
this violent revolution, every disorder or oppression met with rigorous
punishment.[*]
[* Gul. Pict. p. 208. Order, Vitalis, p. 506.]
His army in particular was governed with severe discipline; and
notwithstanding the insolence of victory, care was taken to give as
little offence as possible to the jealousy of the vanquished. The king
appeared solicitous to unite in an amicable manner the Normans and the
English, by intermarriages and alliances; and all his new subjects who
approached his person were received with affability and regard. No signs
of suspicion appeared, not even towards Edgar Atheling, the heir of the
ancient royal family, whom William confirmed in the honors of earl of
Oxford, conferred on him by Harold, and whom he affected to treat with
the highest kindness, as nephew to the Confessor, his great friend and
benefactor.
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