[810] “Cum rex et Gualterius de Pice cum paucis sodalibus in nemore constituti essent,” says Orderic; “Solus cum eo [Walterio] remanserat,” says William of Malmesbury.
[811] This is the version of Geoffrey Gaimar. See [Appendix SS].
[812] Thus the English took each a morsel of earth in their mouths before the battle of Azincourt. See Lingard, v. 498.
[813] This is the version of Benoît de Sainte More. See [Appendix SS].
[814] So William of Malmesbury. See [Appendix SS].
[815] So Orderic. See [Appendix SS].
[816] As in Benoît’s account. So Matthew Paris in the Historia Anglorum. See [Appendix SS]. This seems to have become the most popular version.
[817] This is one of two accounts which reached Eadmer. Hist. Nov. 54. “Quæ sagitta, utrum, sicut quidam aiunt, jacta ipsum percusserit, an, quod plures affirmant, illum pedibus offendentem superque ruentem occiderit, disquirere otiosum putamus.”
[818] This tale, some of the details of which have become popular, is preserved by Matthew Paris, and in a fuller form by Knighton. See [Appendix SS].
[819] This is from Giraldus Cambrensis. See [Appendix SS].