This memorable trial ended, as the reader will have forseen, in the formal renewal of Sweyn's outlawry, and the formal restitution of the Earl Godwin and his other sons to their lands and honours, with declarations imputing all the blame of the late dissensions to the foreign favourites, and sentences of banishment against them, except only, by way of a bitter mockery, some varlets of low degree, such as Humphrey Cock's-foot, and Richard son of Scrob.

[92] The return to power of this able and vigorous family was attended with an instantaneous effect upon the long-relaxed strings of the imperial government.

Macbeth heard, and trembled in his moors; Gryffyth of Wales lit the fire-beacon on moel and craig.

Earl Rolf was banished, but merely as a nominal concession to public opinion; his kinship to Edward sufficed to restore him soon, not only to England, but to the lordship of the Marches, and thither was he sent, with adequate force, against the Welch, who had half-repossessed themselves of the borders they harried.
Saxon prelates and abbots replaced the Norman fugitives; and all were contented with the revolution, save the King, for the King lost his Norman friends, and regained his English wife.
In conformity with the usages of the times, hostages of the loyalty and faith of Godwin were required and conceded.

They were selected from his own family; and the choice fell on Wolnoth, his son, and Haco, the son of Sweyn.