Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

by John Horace Round

[⁹⁵] Old English History, p. 333.

[⁹⁶] Miss Norgate, unable to deny the glaring 'self-contradiction' involved in Mr Freeman's words, dismisses it as a 'matter of secondary importance' (English Historical Review, ix. 74).

[⁹⁷] English Historical Review, ix. 74.

[⁹⁸] Q.R., July 1892, p. 19.

[⁹⁹] Q.R., July 1893, pp. 102-3; cf. Q.R., July 1892, p. 18; English Historical Review, ix. 254.

[¹⁰⁰] It might, for all we know, have formed a crescent or semi-circle, its wings resting strongly on the rear-slopes of the hill; or even a 'wedge', as, indeed, Mr Freeman twice described it (i. 271, iii. 471).

[¹⁰¹] English Historical Review, ix. 74.

[¹⁰²] Cont. Rev., p. 353.

[¹⁰³] Q.R., July 1892, p. 19.

[¹⁰⁴] Since this passage appeared (as it stands) in my original article (Q.R., July 1892, p. 19), I have noted a curious confirmation in Æthelred's words where he speaks of the archers at the Battle of the Standard as 'militaribus armis protecti [ut] tanto acrius quanto securius vel in hostes irruerent, vel exciperent irruentes'. For, as I wrote (p. 20), 'it would naturally be they who, like cavalry in modern times, would harass and follow up a retreating foe'.