William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

by F. M. Stenton

[174]. Guy of Amiens, 687 et seqq.

[175]. William of Poitiers, 143.

[176]. “Vehementer trementem,” Ordericus Vitalis, ii., 157.

[177]. Florence of Worcester, 1066.

[178]. William of Poitiers, 147–8.

[179]. This writ was issued in favour of one Regenbald, who had been King Edward’s chancellor. It was printed by Round in Feudal England, 422, with remarks on its historical importance.

[180]. Monasticon, i., 383. See also Round, Commune of London, 29.

[181]. Monasticon, i., 301. The date assigned here to these documents, of which the text in the Monasticon edition is very faulty, is a matter of inference; but the personal names which occur in them suggest that they should be assigned to the very beginning of William’s reign.

[182]. Round, Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, No. 1423. See also Commune of London, 30.

[183]. William of Poitiers, 148; Ordericus Vitalis, ii., 165.