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The
Norman Conquest of 1066 was remarkable for its completeness...
| However,
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... |
| 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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