Evroult.
[133] Charter of William to the city of London: "Will'm kyng gret ...
ealle tha burhwaru binnan Londone, Frencisce and Englisce, freondlice"
(greets all the burghers within London, French and English). At a later
date, again, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, in a charter for Lincoln, sends
his greetings to his subjects "tam Francis quam Anglis," A.D. 1194.
Stubbs, "Select Charters," Oxford, 1876, pp. 82 and 266.
[134] "Gunnlangs Saga," in "Three northern Love Stories and other
Tales," edited by Erikr Magnusson, and William Morris, London, 1875,
12mo.
[135] "The old play of the Wolsungs," in "Corpus Poeticum Boreale," i.
p. 34.
[136] "Maistre Wace's Roman de Rou," ed. Andresen, line 7749. The same
story is reproduced by William of Malmesbury (twelfth century). "Arma
poposcit, moxque ministrorum tumultu loricam inversam indutus, casum
risu correxit, vertetur, inquiens, fortitudo comitatus mei in regnum."
"Gesta Regum Anglorum," 1840, English Historical Society, book iii. p.
415.
[137] William of Malmesbury, _Ibid._
[138] "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" (Rolls), year 1066, Worcester text (Tib.
B. IV.). Same statement in William of Malmesbury, who says of his
compatriots that "uno praelio et ipso perfacili se patriamque
pessundederint." "Gesta Regum Anglorum," English Historical Society, p.
418.
[139] So says William of Poictiers, and Orderic Vital after him: "...
Nudato insuper capite, detractaque galea exclamans: me inquit
conspicite; vivo et vincam, opitulante Deo." "Orderici Vitalis Angligenae
... Historiae Ecclesiasticae, Libri XIII.," in Migne's "Patrologia," vol.
clxxxviii. col. 297.
[140] The inventory is carried down to details; answers are required to
a number of questions: "... Deinde quomodo vocatur mansio, quis tenuit
eam tempore Regis Eadwardi; quis modo tenet; quot hidae; quot carrucae in
dominio; quot hominum; quot villani; quot cotarii; quot servi; quot
liberi homines; quot sochemani; quantum silvae; quantum prati; quot
pascuorum; quot molendina; quot piscinae," &c., &c. "Domesday for Ely";
Stubbs, "Select Charters," Oxford, 1876, p. 86. The Domesday has been
published in facsimile by the Record Commission: "Domesday Book, or the
great survey of England, of William the Conqueror, 1086," edited by Sir
Henry James, London and Southampton, 1861-3, 2 vols. 4to.
[141] Peterborough text of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," year 1086.
[142] To the extent that England resembled then Jerusalem besieged by
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