[9] Cont. Rev., June 1877, p. 22. See also Preface.
[10] 'Hi nimirum socios e plagis finitimis inquiete arcessebant ... alias quoque civitates ad conspirandum in eadem legationibus instigabant.' Ord. Vit., 510 A (quoted in Norman Conquest, iv. 140).
[11] Mr Freeman rendered it 'neighbouring shires', but I am not at all sure that, taken in conjunction with the words just before about the accessibility of Exeter from Ireland and Brittany, and those just after, about 'mercatores advenas', plagæ does not refer to the shores from which these merchants came.
[12] The boroughs of Dorset were doubtless among the towns which had joined in the Civic League. Probably they stood sieges and were taken by storm (Norm. Conq., iv. 151).
[13] Mr Archer deemed it sufficient reply to all these 'trifling blunders' to admit that 'Mr Freeman did misread 128 for 100' (Cont. Rev., March 1893, p. 337). I invite comparison of the errors I have corrected, and of all the edifice built upon them, with this disingenuous attempt to represent them as unimportant 'slips' (Ibid., p. 354).
[14] Stubbs' Const. Hist., i. 625.
[15] Stubbs' Const. Hist., i. 71.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Norm. Conq., iv. xiii, and marginal note on p. 156.
[18] Ibid., p. 156.