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sееп stripping off the coats of mail from the dead war- 1·ioгs on the battlc-field; tЬis they do Ьу t.urniпg the tнnic insicle out and pulliпg it off at the head, and the resultiпg attitнdes of tЬе victims al'e qнaint and realistic in t}1e ext1·cme ! The Ьшdс1· has Ьеев app1·opriately drscгibed as "а lауег of dcad men." Iв the teвtl1 анd eleventЬ ceпtшies опе of tl1e гegulaг petitions iп the Litany was "Froш tЬе fшу of the Nol'maпs Good Loгd Delive1· us." The Bayeux Tapest1·y was designated, in 1746, as "the воЫсst monшneвt in tl1c ¼'oгld 1·clating to our old English Histшy." It Ьаs passed throнgh most ti·ying vicissitнdes, Ьaving been used in ,vаг tiшe as а caпvas covering to а tгanspoгt ,vagoп, amoпg otheг expeгiences. Fог centшics this ргесiонs treasшe was neglected апd поt нnderstood. Iп Ьis "Тош" М.Ducaгel states: "The pгicsts ... to ,vlюш ,ve addressecl oшselves fo1· а sight of this гemarkable piccc of aпtiquity, kne,v nothing of it; the ciгcшnstance only of its being an­ пually hung ur in tЬеiг clшrch led tЬеш t,0 tшdeгstaпcl wЬat we ,vanted, no person then kпo,viпg that the object of ош inquiries any ways rclated to the Con­ queror." This was in the nineteeвth centuгy. Anglo-Saxon woшen spent much of thei1· time in embroidering. Edith, Queen of Edwaгd the Confcssш, was qнitc noted fш hег needlewoгk, ,vhich ,vas soшet.imcs used to decoratc the state robes of thc king. Fшmerly there existed at Ely Cathedral а work very like the Вауснх Tapestry, гecordiпg tЬе deeds of the