CHAPTER XLIII. DOOMSDAY BOOK:--William begins to think about casting up his subjects' accounts--His commissioners--Bad understanding between the king and the barons--The manner of carrying out the undertaking--The council for the discussion of the Doomsday Book--The Goddess of Discord in the council--William asserts himself proprietor of all the land that belonged to Edward the Confessor, Harold, and the house of Godwin--Several barons renounce their allegiance--Their descendants CHAPTER XLIV. THE CONQUEROR'S DEATH:--Louis le Gros--Curthose and Beauclerc at Conflans--The quarrel between Louis and Beauclerc--Philip ravages Normandy--William goes against him--Christina Atheling is persuaded to take the veil--Edgar is sent on a pilgrimage--The bone of contention--William's lying-in--Curthose joins Philip--William reaches Mantes--The town on fire--The accident--William is removed to the priory of St. Gervase--Conscience-stricken--William's bequests--Death of William CHAPTER XLV. THE BURIAL AT CAEN:--Consternation in Rouen--Inside the priory of St. Gervase--The conqueror's body deserted--The Archbishop of Rouen attends to the funereal honours--Interruption of the ceremony--Fitzarthur is recompensed--The Anglo-Norman barons decide for Robert as King of England CHAPTER XLVI. THE RED KING:--William Rufus--Personal appearance--Gains the support of Lanfranc--Wulnoth and Morkar committed to prison--Odo, bishop of Bayeux, at the head of a conspiracy to dethrone William--Lanfranc as prime minister--Rufus conciliates the Saxon Thanes--The insurgents repulsed at Rochester--Curthose is bribed to let William remain on the throne--William forgets his promises to the Anglo-Saxons--Lanfranc's disgust at his perfidy--Death of Lanfranc--Rufus a bachelor--His dissolute morals--Ravages committed by William's followers--London Bridge built--Westminster Hall founded--Discontent in the land CHAPTER XLVII. RUFUS AND THE JEWS:--The Jews in England--Favour with Rufus--The disputation--Conversion of the young Jew--William's avarice CHAPTER XLVIII. RUFUS AND THE SCOTS:--William's longings for Normandy--Atheling being expelled from Normandy, once more takes refuge with Malcolm Canmore--Canmore invades England--William patches up a peace with Curthose, and prepares to march against the Scots--Malcolm falls back--Everything wrong with the English--Malcolm's defiance--Peace--Rufus being sick, sends for Malcolm to settle disputes--Rufus treats him badly--Malcolm ravages Northumberland as far as Alnwick--The castle of Ivo de Vesci besieged--Hammond Morael--His deliverance of the garrison--Malcolm's death--Morael's escape--The sally--Rout of the Scots--Malcolm's burial--Donald Bane usurps the Scottish throne--Atheling returns to England CHAPTER XLIX.