Chapter 16 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

"Then in his house of wood with flaxen sails

She floats, a queen, across the fateful seas."

-A. F.

TOC, INDX Rather than follow in detail the twenty-one years of William's English reign, we must content ourselves with a glance at the main features of it. We cannot too often remind ourselves of the resemblance between the life and growth of