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61 " One third, or even perhaps one half, of the population died. There had never been mortality on this scale, nor has there been since. At the best estimation a population of approximately 6 million was reduced to 3 million or 4 million. It remained at this level until the early sixteenth century. "
― Peter Ackroyd , Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
62 " Only after the arrival of the Normans in England was there any formal separation between Church and State. "
63 " He had created a desert, and called it peace. "
64 " the first sea battle in English history took place off Sandwich, in Kent, when the invaders were rebuffed. "
65 " The English rose against William every year between 1067 and 1070. "
66 " The kings of these territories were executed in the ritual of the ‘blood eagle’, whereby the lungs were ripped out of the body and draped across the shoulders so that they resembled an eagle’s folded wings. "
67 " The Danish farmers were situated by fortified towns or ‘burghs’ manned by the Danish army, from which we derive the term for borough. These forts could be used "
68 " The argot that came to be used in the courts was known as ‘Law French’. ‘Master’ and ‘servant’ come from the French. ‘Crime’ and ‘treason’ and ‘felony’ are French, as are ‘money’ and ‘payment’. The "
69 " Streoneshalch was renamed as Whitby, and Northworthig became Derby. "
70 " Many of the developments that have been described as Norman in fact represented only the acceleration of English custom. "