 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 628 pages
...eye-witness, * " the whole host was ready, and the good King, with his household, then set forward against the Scots, not in coats and surcoats, but on powerful and costly chargers, and, * Walter of Exeter, an historical bard, who accompanied the expedition, and of whose interesting work... | |
 | John Donald Carrick - Scotland - 1830 - 314 pages
...eye-witness, * " the whole host was ready, and the good King, with his household, then set forward against the Scots, not in coats and surcoats, but on powerful and costly chargers, and, * Walter of Exeter, an historical bard, who accompanied the expedition, and of whose interesting work... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 274 pages
...blazoned. The poem is written in Norman-French, and states at the commencement, that at this siege there were many rich caparisons embroidered on silks and satins, many a beautiful pennon fixed to a lance ; and many a banner displayed. Both banners and pennons were charged with the... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 470 pages
...us that they " set forward against the Scots, not in coats and surtouts, but on powerful and noble chargers ; and, that they might not be taken by surprise,...embroidered on silks and satins • many a beautiful pennon fixed to a lance, and many a banner displayed. And afar off was the noise heard of the neighing... | |
 | George Grant (Author of Panorama of Science.) - 1849 - 322 pages
...expedition, " the whole host was ready, and the good king, with his household, then set forward against the Scots, not in coats and surcoats, but on powerful...chargers, and, that they might not be taken by surprise, were well aud securely armed." " There were many rich caprisons embroidered on silks and satins; many... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...set forward against the Scots, not in coats and surcoats, but on powerful and costly chargers, and well and securely armed- There were many rich caparisons embroidered on silks and satins, many a beantiful pennon fixed to a lance, and many a banner displayed. And afar off was the noise heard of... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...expedition, " the whole host was ready, and the good King with his household then set forward against the Scots, not in coats and surcoats, but on powerful and costly chargers, and well and securely armed- There were many rich caparisons embroidered on silks and satins, many a beantiful... | |
 | William McDowall - Dumfries (Scotland) - 1867 - 938 pages
...was ready, and the good King, with his household, then set forward against the Scots, not in coats or surcoats, but on powerful and costly chargers, and, that they might not be taken by surprise, securely armed. * " The famous Roll of Carlaverock, a poem, in old Norman-French, rchearses the names... | |
 | William M'Dowall - Dumfries (Scotland) - 1867 - 944 pages
...was ready, and the good King, with his household, then set forward against the Scots, not in coats or surcoats, but on powerful and costly chargers, and, that they might not be taken by surprise, securely armed. * "The famous Roll of Carlaverock, a poem, in old Norman-French, rehearses the names... | |
 | 1874 - 614 pages
...and knights of the realm, and their retainers 3,000 strong. ' They set forth,' says an eyewitness, ' not in coats and surcoats, but on powerful and costly...chargers; and that they might not be taken by surprise, ' they were well and securely armed. There were many rich ' caparisons embroidered on silks and satins... | |
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On the appointed day all the host was ready and the good king with his household then set forward against the Scots, not in 'coats and surcoats but on powerful and costly chargers ; and, that they might not be taken by surprise, well and securely armed.... 
