Notes:

This manuscript file was originally supplied as barons.html and the header file was located in heads/barons_head.html both of which were converted to TEI XML by Dr James Cummings of the Oxford Text Archive. The notes below were taken from the header file and each HTML paragraph placed in a separate note.

Scribe 4

List of 551 names supposedly representing the Norman barons who fought at Hastings and for whom Battle Abbey was founded.

Oldest copy of this list. For further discussion of other versions of the so-called Battle Abbey Roll and the relation between the Auchinleck text and that published by John Leland in his De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, see Smyser and the study by the Duchess of Cleveland, who resided at Battle Abbey: C. L. W. Stanhope Powlett, The Battle Abbey Roll, 3 vols (London: Murray, 1889).

Edition:
H. M. Smyser, 'The list of Norman Names in the Auchinleck MS' in Mediaeval Studies in Honor of J. D. M. Ford, U. T. Holmes and A. J. Denomy (eds) (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948): 257-287.