Re: The Roll of Battle Abbey - Sinclairs at the Battle of Hastings

["Iain Laird" <iain.laird@totalise.co.uk>]

Hi Ian!

There's no mistake in the exagerration!

Most of the websites talk about 1+9! e.g. from Kingscrest:

" When William the Conqueror was recruiting his forces, he selected Walderne
of St. Clair (1006-1075) to be one of his commanders. The Roll of Battle
Abbey contains Walderne's name along with nine other Sinclairs. For his
success on the battlefield, Walderne was granted a large amount of land on
the Medway River in England."

Now we know it was just Richard at Hastings - not Walderne - and so the
other 9 remain a mystery!

I suspect you'll have to go a long way to be nit-picker 0f 2002!!! ;-)

Three cheers

Iain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Newman" <books1@iinet.net.au>
To: <sinclair@quarterman.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: The Roll of Battle Abbey - Sinclairs at the Battle of Hastings


> - and if I copied your above message, reposted and published it, there'd
> now  be 10 Sinclairs at Battle! (Shouldn't that have read "The other 8" ?)
> I liked the illustration Iain!     (-;
>
> Cheers,

[ Excess quotations omitted. ]

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