[Footnote 15: Men of the Cotentin, a district comprehended in, though not so large as, the present department of La Manche.] [Footnote 16: De Costentin iessi la lance, Ki abati le rei de France.] [Footnote 17: Maissy, arrondissement of Bayeux.] [Footnote 18: Creully, Croleium, or Credolium, in the arrondissement of Caen; celebrated for its castle, and the lords of the name, who also held among others the chateau de Gratot. _Mém. Ant. Norm_. ii. 251. Thorigny and Creully passed with one of Robert Fitz Hamon's daughters to Robert, Earl of Gloucester, natural son of Henry I.] [Footnote 19: The Chronicle of Normandy says it was Guillesen, uncle of Hamon, who overthrew the king; William of Malmesbury says it was Hamon himself. There is some obscurity in the account of this assault on the king. The passage marked with brackets looks like merely another version of the incident just before related; thus incorporating perhaps the various readings of two MSS. instead of selecting one.] [Footnote 20: Notre dame d'Esquai is on the banks of the Orne, near Vieux. There is, however, another Esquai, a league from Bayeux.] [Footnote 21: The Chronicle of Normandy calls him Bardon; Dumoulin says he was nephew to Grimoult. Another MS. reads Hardré.] [Footnote 22: The Orne.] [Footnote 23: Allemagne and St. André de Fontenay, both in the arrondissement of Caen. There was an abbey of ancient foundation at the latter.] [Footnote 24: The Chronicle of Normandy reports the same.] [Footnote 25: Brionne is on the Risle. The castle here described must not be confounded with the one whose remains still exist. There is no vestige of the old castle on the island. See an article on Brionne in _Mém. Ant. Norm_. iv. 415. Ordericus Vitalis says the siege lasted three years.] [Footnote 26: Burgundy.] [Footnote 27: The name Salle and Saulz occurs in this district in _Gallia Christiana_. There is a Saulx-mesnil near Valognes, the scene of the treachery planned against William.]