Chapter 17 EVIL COUNSELLORS.

"All good to me is lost.

Evil, be thou my good."

Milton.

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Great was the chagrin and rage manifested by Vigneau, Count de Montfort, and the Normans generally, at this unexpected rebuff; and increased cruelties and indignities were heaped upon the hapless and degraded Saxons who had accepted the yoke of villeinage. Indeed, the lives