[59] Norm. Conq., iv. 146.
[60] It is curious to see how Thierry waters down the miracle: 'Son cheval, glissant sur le pavé, s'abattit et le froissa dans sa chute.' Of course this is likely enough to have been the kernel of truth in the legend, but no man has a right to tell the tale in this shape as if it were undoubted fact.—Norm. Conq., iv. 291.
[61] Norm. Conq., iv. 151-2.
[62] Ibid., 146.
[63] Ibid., p. 147.
[64] Cf. the familiar phrase, 'Tactis sacris evangeliis', with Orderic's words here, 'sacros libros'.
[65] Norm. Conq., iv. 151.
[66] Ibid., 559.
[67] Ibid., 560.
[68] Ibid.