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covetous, and raised money by all manner note 1067 /note of exactions. Among others he restored that Odious Tax called Dane - gelt, which had been abolished by Edward the Confessor. This Tax was by the Kings orders levied with all imaginable rigor; & caused universal murmurings & complaints, which sowring the Kings mind made him look upon the English as so many Revels, & they on their side consider addition i /addition d him in the odious light of a Conqueror and of a tyrant.
William being under a necessity of raising money for the payment of his debts, he sent commissioners