[55] Ibid., p. 346.
[56] Quarterly Review, July 1893, p. 90.
[57] Old English History, p. 335.
[58] Wace, of course, is the only one worth mentioning of the three last, and even his 'decisive words' prove to be only a personal opinion ('ço me semble') that the axeman's shield must have hampered him (see Cont. Rev., 348, and Norm. Conq., iii. 765).
[59] Q.R., July 1893, p. 91.
[60] English Historical Review, ix. 607.
[61] Oman's Art of War in the Middle Ages, 24 (see Q.R., July 1893, p. 90).
[62] Compare (as Mr Freeman does) Æthelred's description of the English array of the Battle of the Standard: 'lateribus latera conseruntur']
[63] Norm. Conq., iii. 491.
[64] Ibid., p. 471.