“And must Trelawney die, and must Trelawney die? Then twenty thousand Cornish _boys_ will ask the reason why.” [100] Benoit de Saint-More. Taylor’s Wace, 193. [101] The special correspondent of _The Times_, writing from the Heights of Alma, Sep. 21st, 1854, says, “The attitudes of some of the dead were awful. One man might be seen resting on one knee, with the arms extended in the form of taking aim, the brow compressed, the lips clinched--the very expression of firing at an enemy stamped on the face and fixed there by death; a ball had struck this man in the neck. Physiologists or anatomists must settle the rest. Another was lying on his back with the same expression, and his arms raised in a similar attitude, the Minié musket still grasped in his hands undischarged. _Another lay in a perfect arch, his head resting on one part of the ground and his feet on the other, but his back raised high above it._--_The Times_, Oct. 11th, 1854. _See_ also Sir Charles Bell’s _Anatomy of Expression_, 3rd edition, p. 160. [102] M. A. Lower’s Battle Abbey Chronicle, p. 7. [103] Ibid. [104] The Tapestry represents the death of Harold as rapidly succeeding the infliction of the wound in his eye. The impression left by a perusal of Wace is, that at least an hour or two elapsed between the one event and the other. The diversity of statement between these authorities is probably more apparent than real. After Harold was wounded in so important an organ as the eye, it was impossible that he could long withstand the onset of William’s troops; his defeat, or, in other words, his death, was certain. However manfully Harold may have borne up under the inconvenience and pain of his wound, the artist of the Tapestry is logically correct in at once bringing us to the conclusion of the scene. [105] Ingulph’s Chronicle, p. 139. [106] Lower’s Chronicle of Battle Abbey, p. 11. [107] Sussex Archæological Collections, vol. 1., page 33.--For some years the public have been admitted to the Abbey grounds only on one day of the week, and that the day (Monday) most inconvenient to those who reside at a distance from Battle. Let us hope that henceforth no one respectfully requesting permission to muse upon the spot where the deed was done on which the modern history of the world has turned, will meet with a denial. [108] History of the Anglo-Saxons (European Library), p. 337. [109] Lingard’s Hist. Eng., vol. i., p. 313. [110] Vol. i., p. 487. [111] General Introduction to Domesday, vol. i. p. 311. In all probability William obtained the title of Conqueror from the Latin word _conquiro_, which in its legal acceptation signified to acquire. It is still used in this sense by the Scottish lawyers. [112] Saxon Chronicle, Bohn’s edition, p. 462. [113] Ingulph’s Chronicle, p. 140. [114] Henry of Huntingdon, vol. i. p. 216. [115] William of Malmesbury, p. 279.