to the Land's End; before the end of the year he extends it to the
Tees. In the next year he has indeed to win it back again; but he
does win it back and more also. Early in 1070 he was at last, in
deed as well as in name, full King over all England.

The North was making ready for war while the war in the West went
on, but one part of England did nothing to help the other. In the
summer the movement in the North took shape. The nominal earls
Edwin, Morkere, and Gospatric, with the AEtheling Edgar and others,
left William's court to put themselves at the head of the movement.
Edwin was specially aggrieved, because the king had promised him
one of his daughters in marriage, but had delayed giving her to
him. The English formed alliances with the dependent princes of
Wales and Scotland, and stood ready to withstand any attack.
William set forth; as he had taken Exeter, he took Warwick, perhaps
Leicester. This was enough for Edwin and Morkere. They submitted,
and were again received to favour. More valiant spirits withdrew
northward, ready to defend Durham as the last shelter of
independence, while Edgar and Gospatric fled to the court of
Malcolm of Scotland. William went on, receiving the submission of
Nottingham and York; thence he turned southward, receiving on his
way the submission of Lincoln, Cambridge, and Huntingdon. Again he
deemed it his policy to establish his power in the lands which he
had already won rather than to jeopard matters by at once pressing
farther. In the conquered towns he built castles, and he placed
permanent garrisons in each district by granting estates to his
Norman and other followers. Different towns and districts suffered
in different degrees, according doubtless to the measure of
resistance met with in each. Lincoln and Lincolnshire were on the
whole favourably treated. An unusual number of Englishmen kept