[13] The Abbé de la Rue, in an elaborate paper in the _Archæologia_ (vol. xvii, p. 85-109), supports the opinion that the Tapestry was prepared at the command of Matilda, daughter of Henry I. and wife of Henry V. Emperor of Germany. Lord Lyttleton (History of Henry II., vol. i, p. 353) and Hume (History of England, vol. i, _note_ F.) entertain similar views. [14] Vol. i., p. 328, 8vo. edition. [15] Archæologia, vol. xvii., p. 105. [16] Some idea of the labour involved in the work may be learned from the number of figures represented in it. It contains 623 men, 202 horses, 55 dogs, 505 animals of various kinds not already enumerated, 37 buildings, 41 ships and boats, and 49 trees--in all 1512 figures. [17] See Plate III. [18] Queens of England, vol. i., p. 66, edition 1851. I have been unable to meet with any authority for this statement. [19] In a short visit which I made to Italy in the winter of 1853-4, I paid some attention to this subject. I have seen a _vettorino_, when protesting that his exorbitant charge was a most reasonable one, throw himself into all the contortions exhibited in the Tapestry. [20] Lives of the Queens of England, edition 1853, p. 65. _n_. [21] His words are “L’opinion commune à Bayeux est que ce fut la reine Mathilde, femme de Guillaume-le-Conquérant, qui la fit faire. Cette opinion, qui passe pour une tradition dans le pays, n’a rien que de fort vraisemblable.”--_Jubinal’s Tapisserie de Bayeux_, p. 1. [22] Letters from Normandy, vol. i. p. 241. [23] Ducarel, Appendix I., p. 3. [24] William of Malmesbury’s English Chronicle (Bohn’s edition), p. 196. [25] _See_ Note C., at the end of the Volume. [26] Bohn’s edition, p. 253. [27] Taylor’s Wace, p. 76. [28] General Introduction to Domesday, vol. i., p. 312. [29] Ducarel’s Antiquities of Normandy, Appendix, p. 4. [30] The first account of the hood is in a book written in Latin by the Emperor Frederic II. _See_ History of Inventions and Discoveries by John Beckmann, translated by William Johnston, vol. i. p. 330. [31] Introduction to Domesday, vol. i, p. 295. [32] _See_ Archæologia, vol. xxiv. [33] Rich’s Companion to the Latin Dictionary, art. _Adoratio_. [34] Quoted in Taylor’s Wace, p. 156. [35] _See_ Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson’s Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians, vol. i, p. 235; and Bonomi’s Nineveh, p. 136. [36] Archæologia, vol. 24, plate LV. [37] Illustrations of Cædmon’s Paraphrase, Archæologia, vol. xxiv., p. 339, plate LXXV. Hudson Turner’s Domestic Architecture of England, vol. i., p. 4. [38] Pictorial History of England, vol. i. p. 637. [39] Taylor’s Wace, page 7. [40] This observation, together with some others which may not in every case require to be specially noted, has been taken from a clever series of papers on the Bayeux Tapestry, which were published in the _Ladies’ Newspaper_ for 1851-2. [41] Akerman on Celtic and Teutonic Weapons.--_Archæ._, vol. xxxiv.