Note 868 — Chapter VI · ENGLAND AND THE BARONS. 1139–1147.
Reading edition
“Tres nimirum cohortes sibi Rex constituit.... In primâ fronte regalis exercitûs Flandritæ et Britones erant.” Ibid. Compared with the account of the actual battle in Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 18 (Arnold, pp. 273, 274), the meaning seems to be as given above.