[A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookA Child's History of England CHAPTER IX--ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE SECOND, CALLED RUFUS 5/15
The plot was discovered; all the chief conspirators were seized; some were fined, some were put in prison, some were put to death.
The Earl of Northumberland himself was shut up in a dungeon beneath Windsor Castle, where he died, an old man, thirty long years afterwards.
The Priests in England were more unquiet than any other class or power; for the Red King treated them with such small ceremony that he refused to appoint new bishops or archbishops when the old ones died, but kept all the wealth belonging to those offices in his own hands.
In return for this, the Priests wrote his life when he was dead, and abused him well.
I am inclined to think, myself, that there was little to choose between the Priests and the Red King; that both sides were greedy and designing; and that they were fairly matched. The Red King was false of heart, selfish, covetous, and mean.
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