Note 368 — Chapter XII · THE LATER REIGN OF WILLIAM IN NORMANDY.[159] 1051–1066. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Will. Pict. 95. “Rex denuò accitus multo et miserè supplici nuncio venire abnuit.” The Archdeacon now gets very eloquent, and gives us all the inner workings of the mind of one whom he calls “Papiæ partus.” It takes a minute or two to see that by this odd description he means the Count of Arques.