[117] Flores Historiarum (Rolls), ii. 490.

[118] Ibid. p. 491.

[119] “Ipsi, obsidione turris fortissimæ, quam bellicis insultibus et machinarum ictibus viisque subterraneis expugnatam, fuissent in proximo adepturi, protinus dimissa, Londonias repetierunt” (‘Flores Historiarum,’ ii. 491). Compare ‘Ypodigma Neustriæ,’ p. 518.

[120] Archæological Journal, xx. 205–223 (1863).

[121] First in the ‘English Historical Review’ and then in my ‘Feudal England.’

[122] This was clearly the rule, though there may have been a few exceptions. Compare p. 155 below.

[123] Feudal England, p. 234.

[124] History of the Art of War, p. 359.

[125] Ibid.

[126] Domesday Book and Beyond, pp. 450, 451.