[585] Annals of Edward I. and Edward II. (Rolls Series), ii. 201.
[586] Ibid. p. 203. It will be observed that this description of the Scots—“quasi sepes densa”—is an admirable parallel to the metaphor—“quasi castellum”—which Henry of Huntingdon applies to the English “acies” at the Battle of Hastings, and which Mr. Freeman so deplorably misunderstood (‘Feudal England,’ p. 343–4). So, too, Adam de Murimuth speaks of the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys (1340) as “quasi castrorum acies (or aciem) ordinatum” (p. 106). Such metaphors, I have shown, were common.
[587] Vol. vii. p. 122.
[588] Vol. iii. p. xxi.
[589] History of England, p. 174.
[590] Mr. Oman reckons the men of the “Marcher Lords” at 1,850. I make them 2,040.
[591] Ed. Record Commission.
[592] Except a special body of 100 men from the Forest of Dean whence the necessary miners were always obtained.
[593] History of the Art of War, pp. 593–4.
[594] “Commissioners of Array for all counties citra Trent” (Wrottesley’s ‘Creçy and Calais,’ p. 8; cf. Ibid. pp. 58–61).