[164]. William of Poitiers, 139.
[165]. Guy of Amiens, 607.
[166]. William of Poitiers, 140.
[167]. Guy of Amiens, 617.
[168]. The embassy to Winchester is only mentioned by Guy of Amiens, who omits all reference to William’s illness, which is derived from William of Poitiers. Guy, however, places the message at this point of the campaign.
[169]. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 4.
[170]. This is clearly meant by the statement of William of Poitiers that William’s troops burned “quicquid ædificiorum citra flumen invenere.”
[171]. William of Poitiers, 141.
[172]. The Worcester Chronicle, followed by Florence of Worcester, 1066, asserts that Edwin and Morcar submitted at “Beorcham,” but William of Poitiers, whose authority is preferable on a point of this kind, implies that they did not give in their allegiance until after the coronation. On the geography relating to these events see Baring, E.H.R. xiii., 17.
[173]. William of Poitiers, 142.