The flames, spreading into the neighboring streets, reduced the whole city to ashes.

The enraged inhabitants, aided by the Danes, took advantage of the confusion to attack the castle, which they carried by assault; and the garrison, to the number of three thousand men, was put to the sword without mercy.[****] This success proved a signal to many other parts of England, and gave the people an opportunity of showing their malevolence to the Normans.
Hereward, a nobleman in East Anglia, celebrated for valor, assembled his followers, and taking shelter in the Isle of Ely, made inroads on all the neighboring country.[*****] The English in the counties of Somerset and Dorset rose in arms, and assaulted Montacute, the Norman governor; while the inhabitants of Cornwall and Devon invested Exeter, which from the memory of William's clemency still remained faithful to him.
[* Gul.Gemet.p.290.Order.

Vitalis, p.

513.
Anglia Sacra, TO! I.p.

216.] [** Order.