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Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e became in England the language of the king andhis court, of the nobility, of government officials, and in all proba-bility of the greater number of the traders in the towns. Latinwas still used in the services and in most of the business of thechurch, and in almost all written documents. English was usedby the great mass of the people, and in lawsuits in which English-men were concerned or old English laws and charters quoted.King William himself is said to have tried to learn English inorder that he might understand the testimony given at the law-suits o( his English subjects. No doubt songs were still composedand sung in the language ot the people, and there were no signsof English being abandoned by those who were born to its use.Vet the concurrent use of the two languages led to many changesin the old English, and when it came into literary use again, ata later time, the endings of its words had been lost, a vast num-ber of new words introduced, and it was almost a new language.
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ENGLAND UNDER THE NORMANS 107 85. Reign of William I. — William was king of England fortwenty-one years, from his coronation in 1066 to his death in1087. The first few years of his reign were occupied largely withthe completion of the Conquest by putting down the risings indifferent parts of England, lie also made an expedition intothe south of Scotland, forcing Malcolm, the Scottish king, whohad made several raids into Northumbria since the battle ofHastings, to swear allegiance to him. Later William also invadedWales, and thus obtained the same nominal control over the wholeisland that his Anglo-Saxon predecessors had claimed. Heretained his dukedom of Normandy and visited it repeatedly,settling its internal affairs and carrying on conflicts with thecounts of the provinces adjacent to it. 86. William and the Papacy. — A question of some difficultyarose in regard to Williams relation to the pope. The encourage-ment granted by the pope to the original project of invasion ofEngland

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