William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

by F. M. Stenton

[154]. “Languent Angli, et quasi reatum ipso defectu confitentes, vindictum patiuntur.”—W. P., 135.

[155]. Baring, E. H. R., xxii., 71.

[156]. “Jam inclinato die.”—W. P., 137. Crepusculi tempore.—Florence of Worcester, 1066.

[157]. Baring, E. H. R., xxii., 69.

[158]. Guy of Amiens.

[159]. See the Waltham tract, De Inventione Sancti Crucis, ed. Stubbs. William of Malmesbury was evidently acquainted with this legend.

[160]. It is probable that Wulfnoth had been taken together with Harold by Guy of Ponthieu, and had been left behind in Normandy as a surety for the observance of his brother’s oath to William.

[161]. Gesta Regum, R. S., 307.

[162]. Thomas Stubbs, ed. Raine; Historians of the Church of York, R. S., ii., 100.

[163]. William of Poitiers, 139.