Note 1427 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 2)
Reading edition
Ib. 13388;
“Quant un Engleiz vint acorant;
En sa cumpaigne out chent armez,
De plusors armes atornez.
Hache noresche out mult bele.”
It has been suggested that this centurion may have been a hundred-man or centenarius.