William the Conqueror had so great an abhorrence of the English language, that he commanded all the laws and law-proceedings to be in French; and even the children in school were taught the first elements of grammar and letters in French and not in English.
William the Conqueror
The English were so much abominated, that whatever their merit might be, they were deprived of all their offices, and strangers, though of inferior abilities, were put into their places.
Ingulf was the Benedictine abbot of Crowland from 1087.
