Note 106 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES

For Baudri's poem see Q.R., July 1893, pp. 73-5. As to Baudri's authority, I need only repeat what I wrote in the English Historical Review (ix. 217): 'Mr Archer endeavours, of course, to pooh-pooh it. Now I call special attention to the fact that the test I apply to Baudri is that which Mr Freeman applied to the Tapestry, the obvious test of internal evidence. But Mr Archer's ways are not as those of other historians: instead of examining, as I did, Baudri's account in detail he dismisses it on the ground that the writer's "description of the world" at that date could not be accurate (Ibid., 29). We are not dealing with his "description of the world"; we are dealing with his lines on the battle of Hastings.'