Note 208 — THE MINORITY OF HENRY III CHAPTER I THE WAR WITH LOUIS 1216–1217

“Aval une rue a senestre S’en tornerent vers Wikefort,” ll. 16774–5. Perche and his men had evidently been fighting with their backs towards the east front of the minster, so that the “street on their left” would be the main road—Ermine Street, Steep Hill, High Street—running down due southward “towards Wigford” as the poet says.