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But the larger bones, with the remaining dust, were collected in a leaden coffer, and deposited at the altar of St. Martin." Queen Ediva, as we learn from the same authority, "who before the fire reposed under a gilted feretrum in nearly the middle of the south cross, was now deposited at the altar of St. Martin, under the feretrum of Living," an archbishop who died in 1020.

Hartley Withers - The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] : A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See

Verstegan says it was introduced here by the Saxons, but was neglected till again brought into use by William the Conqueror, at the battle of Hastings. No mention is made of bowmen among the troops of Harold; but we read that the Norman army was fronted by "footmen clothed in light armour, worn over a gilted cassock, and bearing either long-bows or steel cross-bows."

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832