[595] Ibid. pp. 67–8.
[596] Rotuli Scotiæ, i. p. 127.
[597] Since this was written Mr. Morris has independently observed that 40,000 or even 10,000 horse are impossible (‘Eng. Hist. Rev.,’ xiv. 133).
[598] I omit, as he does, in this reckoning, any contingents from elsewhere.
[599] The italics are mine.
[600] The italics are mine.
[601] “The host was told off into ten battles, probably (like the French at Creçy) in three lines of three battles each, with the tenth as a reserve under the king” (p. 574). But in the earlier plans the English battles are shown in single line, and in the earliest, at least, with a widely extended front.
[602] The italics are mine.
[603] The italics are mine.
[604] Art of War in Middle Ages, 104; Social England,, ii. 174–176; History of England, pp. 187–8; History of the Art of War, pp. 604–615.