Do7iiesday Book. 171 



gleaned from Domesday Book, whicli, added to the gloomy- 

 list of details afforded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the 

 insio-ht obtained of Norman warlike laws and tastes, combine 

 to form a picture in which the yellows of ripening crops and 

 the greens of luxuriant herbage are almost invisible amidst 

 the glittering greys of armour and the scarlet stains of blood. 



