| Description | He thanks him for his kind reply about Sir "William the Conqueror": he is going in to the details of the little-known Battle of Ripple Field, and has hopes of unearthing Sir William's ammunition dump: he has Corbet's account of the battle, but there are evidently one or two other sources: he found a record in the British Museum of Sir William's horse falling under him, which gave rise to rumours of his being killed: if he would like to see the battle site, he hopes Mrs Petre will bring him over when he is next in Beckford. |