stles where the duke might command in his interest. In a later passage William of Poitiers asserts that the duke wished to marry Harold to one of his daughters. In all this there is nothing impossible, and to assume with Freeman that the reception of a Norman garrison into a castle entrusted to Harold's charge would have been an act of treason is to read much later political ideas into a transaction of the eleventh century. William was Edward's kinsman and we have no reason to suppose that the king would have regarded with disfavour an act which would have given his cousin the means of making good the claim to his succession which there is every reason to believe that he himself had sanctioned twelve years before.
7. Vita Edwardi Confessoris (R. S.), 432
8. William of Poitiers, 123.
9. William of Malrnesbury, Gesta Regum, ii., 299.
10. The statement that William promised, if successful, to hold England as a fief of the papacy is made by no writer earlier than Wace, who has no authority on a point of this kind.
11. Monumenta Gregoriana.
12. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 8.
13. William of Poitiers, 124.
14. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum.
15. The list followed here is that printed by Giles as an appendix to the Brevis Relatio. Scriptores, p.21.
16. Guy of Amiens, 34: "Appulus et Caluber, Siculus quibus jacula fervet."
17. Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, ed. 1889, p. 368.
18. This was Freeman's final view. N. C. iii., 625.
19. Florence of Worcester, 1066.
20. Ordericus Vitalis, P.120.
21. Chronicles of Abingdon, Peterborough, and Worcester, 1066.
22. John of Oxenedes, a thirteenth-century monk of St. Benet of Holme, asserts that Harold entrusted the defence of the coast to AElfwold, abbot of that house. The choice of an East Anglian abbot suggests that his appointment was intended as a precaution against the Scandinavian danger.
23. Heimskringla, page 165.
24. Simeon of Durham, 1066.
25. This episode forms the last entry in the Abingdon version of the Chronicle, and it is described in a northern dialect.