His Teutonic blood saved him from no humiliation or insult.

The Normans seized all the lands, all the castles, all the pleasant mansions, all the churches and monasteries.

Even the Saxon saints were flung down out of their shrines and trampled in the dust under the iron heel of the Christian conqueror.

Everything Saxon was vile, and the word 'Englishry' implied as much contempt and scorn as the word 'Irishry' in a later age.

In fact, the subjugated Saxons gradually became infected with all the vices and addicted to all the social disorders that prevailed among the Irish in the same age; only in Ireland the anarchy endured much longer from the incompleteness of the conquest and the absence of the seat of supreme government, which kept the races longer separate and antagonistic.