[125]. Abingdon Chronicle, 1066.
[126]. Guy of Amiens: “Diruta quae fuerant dudum castella reformas; Ponis custodes ut tueantur ea.”
[127]. W. P.: “Normanni previa munitione Penevesellum, altera Hastingas occupavere.”
[128]. See on this point Round, Feudal England, 150–152.
[129]. William of Poitiers, 128.
[130]. William’s real numbers probably lay between six and seven thousand.
[131]. See the paraphrase of this passage in the Roman de Rou, Freeman, N. C., iii., 417.
[132]. Guy of Amiens, p. 31: “Ex Anglis unus, latitans sub rupe marina Cemit ut effusas innumeras acies. Scandere currit equum; festinat dicere regi.”
[133]. Gaimar, l’Estoire des Engles, R. S., i., p. 222. Gaimar wrote in the twelfth century, but he followed a lost copy of the A.-S. chronicle.
[134]. For the chronology of the campaigns of Stamfordbridge and Hastings the dates given by Freeman are followed here.