The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

But of the day—and of the weeks bygone, and of many other things—this deponent saith nil, whereby and forwhy he is going to bed.

Normanisation also affected the Scottish Church, leading to new monastic foundations and stronger continental links.

[T]here aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽſelues in caues of the grounde, of ſmall ſtature, and very fearefull, for as ſoone as they ſawe them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great riuer and very good harborough.