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The
Norman Conquest of 1066 was remarkable for its completeness...
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the Isle of Ely became what we have come to
term a "pocket of resistance." |
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It was then that the natural
defences of the Isle became of prime importance,
and were exploited by the Saxon leader, Hereward
the Wake..! |
| `Pon
his return to the family estates at Bourne in
Lincolnshire in 1068, Hereward found that they
had been given to a Norman, Ivo de Taillebuis,
by William the Conqueror and his brother's decapitated
head had been impaled above the entrance...
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| Hereward
became possessed, and was not long avenging
the death of his brother... |
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That very night, armed with what he could carry
he attacked, and did slay 15 Norman Soldiers
and mounted their heads in the place of his
brother's... |
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