[1] Notwithstanding all this, K. William sought to tame & vanquish those of the English Nobilitie, who would not be at his becke. They againe on the other side made themselues strong, the better to resist him, choosing for their chéefe capteines and leaders, the earles Edwine & Edgar Etheling, who valiantlie resisted the Normans, and slue many of them with great rage and crueltie. And as they thus procéeded in their matters, king William being a politike prince, forward and painefull in his businesse, suffe|red them not altogither to escape cléere awaie, but did sore annoy and put them off to remediles losses, though he abode in the meane time many laborious iournies, slaughters of his people, and damages of his person. Herevpon the English Nobilitie euer after, yea in time of peace, were hated of the king and his Normans, and at length were kept so short, that being mooued partlie with disdaine, and partlie with dread, Polydor. Anno Reg. 2. Matth. Paris. Matth. West. Diuers of the English No|bilitie forsake their natiue countrie. they got them out of the realme, some into Scotland, some into Denmarke, others into Norway; and among these, the two earles Edwine and Marchar, with certeine bishops & others of the cleargie, besides manie also of the temporaltie, es|caped into Scotland. Marleswine & Gospatricke, with a great number of other the Nobles of Nor|thumberland, Edgar Ethling with his mother A|gatha, and his sisters Christine and Margaret, chan|ced also to be driuen into Scotland by tempest, as they sailed towards the coasts of Germanie, purpo|sing to haue returned into Hungarie, where the said Edgar was borne: howbeit being arriued in Scot|land, he found so friendlie entertainment there, that finallie Malcolme the third then king of that realme, tooke his sister Margaret to wife, and Christine be|came a nunne, as in the Scotish chronicles more plainelie dooth appéere. Polydor. King William héereby per|ceiuing daily how vnwilling the Englishmen were to be vnder his obeisance, was in feare of rebellious commotions; and therfore to subdue them the better, he builded foure castels,Two at York, wherein he left fiue hun|dred men in garrison. Simon Dun. one at Notingham, another at Lincolne, the third at Yorke, and the fourth néere vnto Hastings, where he landed at his first com|ming into England.