Note 101 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES

I cannot insist too strongly on the charge I have here made. It is no 'matter of secondary importance';101 nor is it the case that my argument as to the 'palisade' is, as Mr Archer pretended, 'the only definite and palpable charge' that I bring 'against Mr Freeman's account of the great battle'.102 For, as I wrote from the very first, 'rejecting Mr Freeman's views on the groupings of the English host, we reject with them in toto the story he has built upon them'.103