shaken; in England he never knew defeat. His English enemies he
had subdued; the Danes were allowed to remain and in some sort to
help in his work by plundering during the winter. The King now
marched to the Salisbury of that day, the deeply fenced hill of Old
Sarum. The men who had conquered England were reviewed in the
great plain, and received their rewards. Some among them had by
failures of duty during the winter marches lost their right to
reward. Their punishment was to remain under arms forty days
longer than their comrades. William could trust himself to the
very mutineers whom he had picked out for punishment. He had now
to begin his real reign; and the champion of the Church had before
all things to reform the evil customs of the benighted islanders,
and to give them shepherds of their souls who might guide them in
the right way,



CHAPTER IX--THE SETTLEMENT OF ENGLAND--1070-1086



England was now fully conquered, and William could for a moment sit
down quietly to the rule of the kingdom that he had won. The time
that immediately followed is spoken of as a time of comparative
quiet, and of less oppression than the times either before or
after. Before and after, warfare, on one side of the sea or the
other, was the main business. Hitherto William has been winning
his kingdom in arms. Afterwards he was more constantly called away
to his foreign dominions, and his absence always led to greater
oppression in England. Just now he had a moment of repose, when he