[105]. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum.
[106]. The list followed here is that printed by Giles as an appendix to the Brevis Relatio. Scriptores, p. 21.
[107]. Guy of Amiens, 34: “Appulus et Caluber, Siculus quibus jacula fervet.”
[108]. Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, ed. 1889, p. 368.
[109]. This was Freeman’s final view. N. C., iii., 625.
[110]. Florence of Worcester, 1066.
[111]. Ordericus Vitalis, ii., 120.
[112]. Chronicles of Abingdon, Peterborough, and Worcester, 1066.
[113]. John of Oxenedes, a thirteenth-century monk of St. Benet of Holme, asserts that Harold entrusted the defence of the coast to Ælfwold, abbot of that house. The choice of an East Anglian abbot suggests that his appointment was intended as a precaution against the Scandinavian danger.
[114]. See Introduction, above, page 48.