[19] In a short visit which I made to Italy in the winter of 1853-4, I paid some attention to this subject. I have seen a vettorino, when protesting that his exorbitant charge was a most reasonable one, throw himself into all the contortions exhibited in the Tapestry.
[20] Lives of the Queens of England, edition 1853, p. 65. n.
[21] His words are “L’opinion commune à Bayeux est que ce fut la reine Mathilde, femme de Guillaume-le-Conquérant, qui la fit faire. Cette opinion, qui passe pour une tradition dans le pays, n’a rien que de fort vraisemblable.”—Jubinal’s Tapisserie de Bayeux, p. 1.
[22] Letters from Normandy, vol. i. p. 241.
[23] Ducarel, Appendix I., p. 3.
[24] William of Malmesbury’s English Chronicle (Bohn’s edition), p. 196.
[25] See [Note C]., at the end of the Volume.
[26] Bohn’s edition, p. 253.
[27] Taylor’s Wace, p. 76.
[28] General Introduction to Domesday, vol. i., p. 312.