UP TO THE END OF 1066 1. Which do you consider were the more alike, Cæsar or Pompey, or _vice versa_? (Be brief.) 2. Discuss, in latin or gothic (_but not both_), whether the Northumbrian Bishops were more schismatical than the Cumbrian Abbots. (Be bright.) 3. Which came first, A.D. or B.C.? (Be careful.) 4. Has it never occurred to you that the Romans _counted backwards_? (Be honest.) 5. How angry would you be if it was suggested (1) That the XIth Chap. of the _Consolations of Boethius_ was an interpolated palimpsest? (2) That an eisteddfod was an agricultural implement? 6. How would you have attempted to deal with (_a_) The Venomous Bead? (_b_) A Mabinogion or Wapentake? (Be quick.) 7. What would have happened if (_a_) Boadicea had been the daughter of Edward the Confessor? (_b_) Canute had succeeded in sitting on the waves? Does it matter? 8. Have you the faintest recollection of (1) Ethelbreth? (2) Athelthral? (3) Thruthelthrolth? 9. What _have_ you the faintest recollection of? 10. Estimate the average age of (1) The Ancient Britons. (2) Ealdormen. (3) Old King Cole. 11. Why do you know nothing at all about (_a_) The Laws of Infangthief and Egg-seisin? (_b_) Saint Pancras? 12. Would you say that Ethelread the Unready was directly responsible for the French Revolution? If so, what _would_ you say? N.B.--Do not attempt to answer more than one question at a time. CHAPTER XI WILLIAM I. A CONQUERING KING In the year 1066 occurred the other memorable date in English History, viz. _William the Conqueror, Ten Sixty-six_. This is also called _The Battle of Hastings_, and was when William I (1066) conquered England at the Battle of Senlac (_Ten Sixty-six_). [Illustration: First Conquering Action] When William the Conqueror landed he lay down on the beach and swallowed two mouthfuls of sand. This was his first conquering action and was in the South; later he ravaged the North as well. The Norman Conquest was a Good Thing, as from this time onwards England stopped being conquered and thus was able to become top nation. DOOMSDAY BOOK AND THE FORESTS William next invented a system according to which everybody had to belong to somebody else, and everybody else to the King. This was called the Feutile System, and in order to prove that it was true he wrote a book called the _Doomsday Book_, which contained an inventory of all the Possessions of all his subjects; after reading the book through carefully William agreed with it and signed it, indicating to everybody that the Possessions mentioned in it were now his.