Note 802 — Chapter XIII · THE NEGOTIATIONS OF DUKE WILLIAM.[752] January–August, 1066.
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Liber de Hydâ, 291. “Dei etenim nutu multorum fit concursus populorum, ultro se navibus ingerentium, qui audierant Angliam argenti et auri omnibus opulentam, cibi et potûs omniumque frugum uberrimam, omnibus præterea bonis esse refertam.” So Orderic (494 A) speaks of William’s foreign followers as “Anglicæ prædæ inhiantes.”