Annals of the Boodeys e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. When William the Conqueror, in the year 1066, with his army, in seven hundred ships, then landing on the Shores of England, at Pevency, he had on board an Eliot, - not an apostle, but the remote ancestor of our New England evangelist. It was no other than Sir William De Aliot, a military officer under the great Conqueror, then valiant, and then in high command.