[106] Lower’s Chronicle of Battle Abbey, p. 11.
[107] Sussex Archæological Collections, vol. 1., page 33.—For some years the public have been admitted to the Abbey grounds only on one day of the week, and that the day (Monday) most inconvenient to those who reside at a distance from Battle. Let us hope that henceforth no one respectfully requesting permission to muse upon the spot where the deed was done on which the modern history of the world has turned, will meet with a denial.
[108] History of the Anglo-Saxons (European Library), p. 337.
[109] Lingard’s Hist. Eng., vol. i., p. 313.
[110] Vol. i., p. 487.
[111] General Introduction to Domesday, vol. i. p. 311. In all probability William obtained the title of Conqueror from the Latin word conquiro, which in its legal acceptation signified to acquire. It is still used in this sense by the Scottish lawyers.
[112] Saxon Chronicle, Bohn’s edition, p. 462.
[113] Ingulph’s Chronicle, p. 140.
[114] Henry of Huntingdon, vol. i. p. 216.
[115] William of Malmesbury, p. 279.