Charles Dickens

Name: A Child's History of England — Chapter 10
Author: Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

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“A Child's History of England — Chapter 10”, published in 1900, is a work by Charles Dickens. It explores elements such as The White Ship, Normandy and King Henry.

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

“ The Prince encouraged the fifty sailors to row harder yet, for the honor of The White Ship.
Crash! A terrific cry broke from three hundred hearts. It was the cry the people in the distant vessels of the King heard faintly on the water. The White Ship had struck upon a rock—was filling—going down!"
Fitz-Stephen hurried the Prince into a boat, with some few Nobles. "Push off," he whispered; "and row to the land. It is not far, and the sea is smooth. The rest of us must die." ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

“ To raise her marriage-portion, he taxed the English people in a most oppressive manner; then treated them to a great procession to restore their good humor; and sent Matilda away, in fine state, with the German ambassadors, to be educated in the country of her future husband.
And now his Queen, Maud the Good, unhappily died. It was a sad thought for that gentle lady, that the only hope with which she had married a man whom she had never loved—the hope of reconciling the Norman and English races—had failed. At the very time of her death, Normandy and all France was in arms against England ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

“ The youth and innocence of the pretty little William Fitz-Robert (for that was his name) made him many friends at that time, when he became a young man, the King of France, united with the French Counts of Anjou and Flanders, supported his cause against the King of England, and took many of the King's towns and castles in Normandy. But, King Henry, artful and cunning always, bribed some of William's friends with money, some with promises, some with power. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

“ As one false man usually makes many, and as a false King, in particular, is pretty certain to make a false Court, the Barons took the oath about the succession of Matilda (and her children after her) , twice over, without in the least intending to keep it. The King was now relieved from any remaining fears of William Fitz-Robert, by his death in the Monastery of St. Omer, in France, at twenty-six years old, of a pike-wound in the hand. And as Matilda gave birth to three sons, he thought the succession to the throne secure. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

“ Now, the Prince was a dissolute, debauched young man of eighteen, who bore no love to the English, and had declared that when he came to the throne he would yoke them to the plough like oxen. He went aboard The White Ship, with one hundred and forty youthful Nobles like himself, among whom were eighteen noble ladies of the highest rank. All this gay company, with their servants and the fifty sailors, made three hundred souls aboard the fair White Ship. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

“ But the sails were all set, and the oars all going merrily. Fitz-Stephen had the helm. The gay young nobles and the beautiful ladies, wrapped in mantles of various bright colors to protect them from the cold, talked, laughed, and sang. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 10 (1900)

“ The English in general were on King Henry's side, though many of the Normans were on Robert's. But the English sailors deserted the King, and took a great part of the English fleet over to Normandy; so that Robert came to invade this country in no foreign vessels, but in English ships. The virtuous Anselm, however, whom Henry had invited back from abroad, and made Archbishop of Canterbury, was steadfast in the King's cause; and it was so well supported that the two armies, instead of fighting made a peace. Poor Robert, who trusted anybody and everybody, readily trusted his brother, the King ”

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