The Earl refused to appear.

He, his eldest son Harold, and his second son Sweyn, hastily raised as many fighting men as their utmost power could collect, and demanded to have Count Eustace and his followers surrendered to the justice of the country.

The King, in his turn, refused to give them up, and raised a strong force.

After some treaty and delay, the troops of the great Earl and his sons began to fall off.

The Earl, with a part of his family and abundance of treasure, sailed to Flanders; Harold escaped to Ireland; and the power of the great family was for that time gone in England.