Many great English families of the present time acquired their English lands in this way, and are very proud of it.
But what is got by force must be maintained by force.

These nobles were obliged to build castles all over England, to defend their new property; and, do what he would, the King could neither soothe nor quell the nation as he wished.

He gradually introduced the Norman language and the Norman customs; yet, for a long time the great body of the English remained sullen and revengeful.

On his going over to Normandy, to visit his subjects there, the oppressions of his half-brother ODO, whom he left in charge of his English kingdom, drove the people mad.

The men of Kent even invited over, to take possession of Dover, their old enemy Count Eustace of Boulogne, who had led the fray when the Dover man was slain at his own fireside.