"That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie]."
— England

January 1, 1970

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William of Malmesbury on the Battle of Hastings, Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125), quoted in M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066–1272 (1998), p. 24