Excerpt from The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, Vol. 1: With Their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects Saxon population. As some excuse for his intentions, the spirit of resistance yet lingered in the northern and western extremities of the kingdom. It was not long, however, before rebellion, if such resistance can be so called, was again quelled, so far at least as regarded the west, and Matilda now coming to England, she was crowned at Whitsuntide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.