The New Plan of the King

The king had ordered his men to commandeer quote, absolutely all boats along with their boatmen. And he had them gather at cottonum in Cambridgeshire. They're going to get all those materials together and then they're going to use the assembled flotilla to ferry the construction supplies to Aldrith. Is this starting to sound familiar to you? Yeah, even the scribes sound incredulous at what William was doing here,. He was trying, though in vain, to see if it were possible to cross to the island by an unusual route end quote.