London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

by Reginald R. Sharpe

Freeman, Norman Conquest, i, 418.

Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 122.

"At oppidanis magnanimiter pugnantibus repulsa."—Malmesbury, i, 216.

Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 123.

-Id. ii, 121, 123. Henry of Huntingdon relates that Eadric caused a panic on the field of battle by crying out that Edmund had been killed. "Flet Engle, flet Engle, ded is Edmund."

Freeman, Norman Conquest, i, 437.

Freeman, Norman Conquest, i, 538.

"The 'lithsmen' (ship-owners) of London, who with others raised Harold to the throne, were doubtless such 'burg-thegns.'"—Gross, The Gild Merchant, i, 186. Cf. Lingard, i, 318. Norton Commentaries, pp. 23-24.

Green, Conquest of England, p. 462. Loftie, Hist. of London, i, 73. "The Londoners who attended must have gone by way of the river in their 'liths.'"—Historic Towns, London (Loftie), p. 197.

Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 129.