Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton; Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton [Editor]: The art of needle-work from the earliest ages: including some notices of the ancient historical tapestries (London: Henry Colburn Publishers, 1841)

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CHAPTER IX.
THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY.—PART IL

te But bloody bloody was the field,
Ere that lang day was done.”—Hardyknute.

“ King William bithought him alsoe of that
Folke that was forlorne,
And slayn also thoruz him
In the bataile biforne.
And ther as the bataile was,
An abbey he lite rere
Of Seint Martin, for the soules
That there slayn were.
And the monkes well ynoug
Feffed without fayle,
That is called in Englonde
Abbey of Bataile.”
Immediately after the solemn ceremony described
in the foregoing chapter, Harold is depicted as re-
turning to England and presenting himself before
the king, Edward the Confessor. “ But the day
came that no man can escape, and King Edward
drew near to die.” His deathbed and his funeral
procession are both wrought in the tapestry, but by
some accident have been transposed. His remains