sound the re -call, and cry aloud [1] " Dex aie." The Normans retraced their march , and turned their faces to the foe, then you might see the Normans turn and intermingle with the English . . . . . .
Amongst the Norman warriors are mentioned Roger de Belmont,William Mallet, the Lord of Montfort,William de Vezpont, the Chamberlain of Tankerville , the Lords of Albermarle, of Esterville and Eustace of Abbeville, Old Geoffrey of Maine, and Old Humphrey of Bohun, William de Warenne [from Garenes), Old Hugh de Gournay, and Engerrand de l'Aigle (of the Eagle ), the Viscount of Tours, and the Butler D 'Aubignie,and de Lacie, Tracy, and Rivers and Mohun, Roger Marmion and the Avenels, Bruce, St. John , Lucy, and Montfichet, Hugh Bigod , Hay,Mowbray and Say,Mortimer and Sinclair, Robert de Mortaigne, Hugh de Mortimer and Harcourt, the Count of Eu, and the Lord of St. Valeri. . . . But the Normans had all given up the assault, when Roger de Montgomerie came charging with lowered lance. . . . . There you might hear noises and cries and the splintering of lances. The English were at bay at their barriers, they shore off the (Norman ) lance heads; with bills and hatchets they hewed to pieces them and their lances : and the latter drew their swords, and broke down all the barriers, and the English , in great dejection , retreated to the standard . There were assembled all the mutilated and the hurt. . . . . . . There were many knights
- ↑ En halt I take to be the same as en haut- it has, however, been translated " for a halt ."
