[105] Old English History, p. 334.
[106] For Baudri's poem see Q.R., July 1893, pp. 73-5. As to Baudri's authority, I need only repeat what I wrote in the English Historical Review (ix. 217): 'Mr Archer endeavours, of course, to pooh-pooh it. Now I call special attention to the fact that the test I apply to Baudri is that which Mr Freeman applied to the Tapestry, the obvious test of internal evidence. But Mr Archer's ways are not as those of other historians: instead of examining, as I did, Baudri's account in detail he dismisses it on the ground that the writer's "description of the world" at that date could not be accurate (Ibid., 29). We are not dealing with his "description of the world"; we are dealing with his lines on the battle of Hastings.'
[107] Norm. Conq., iii. 467, 477.
[108] English Historical Review, ix. 42-3, 603.
[109] Though I have already done so in English Historical Review, ix. 250.
[110] English Historical Review, ix. 42.
[111] Mr Freeman rendered the 'sagittis armatos et balistis' of William by 'archers, slingers, and crossbowmen'. 'Balistæ' can hardly mean slings and crossbows, and I think, on consideration, it is best referred to the latter; but the question is not of much importance.
[112] So, too, in Arch. Journ., xl. 359: 'You may call up the march of archers and horsemen across the low ground between the hills.'
[113] Norm. Conq., iii. 462. I regret that I must call attention to the fact that I gave (English Historical Review, ix. 250) this precise reference for my statement that, according to Mr Freeman, the infantry were all archers, explaining that in another passage (p. 467) William of Poitiers had led him to take a somewhat different view. Mr Archer, however, has printed (English Historical Review, ix. 603) the other passage (p. 467) in triumph by the side of my statement. He further denies that Mr Freeman held, even on p. 462, that the infantry were all archers. Anyone can test the value of Mr Archer's denial for himself by referring to Norm. Conq., iii. 462, where he will find that Mr Freeman, describing the Norman host, mentions no infantry but archers.
[114] As he had merely copied from the Tapestry on p. 462, so he copied William of Poitiers on p. 467.