Mounted messengers from Duke William of Normandy racing to Count Guy I of Ponthieu, and William on his throne receiving a Saxon messenger in his palace. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruce’s The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.

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