Chapter XX: Appendix: II

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The most remarkable among the ancient inscriptions found in that part of Normandy, which is now comprised in the Department of La Manche, are upon an ancient altar, at Ham, on a medallion attached to the outside of the church of Ste. Croix, at St. Lô, and upon the font at Magneville, near Valognes. The first of these has generally been referred to the seventh century; the second seems to be of the ninth; and the last may with safety be considered as of the latter part of the tenth, or beginning of the eleventh, at which period, the choir of the church of Magneville appears also to have been erected. Of the sculpture upon the font, as well as of the inscription, an accurate idea may be formed, from the annexed drawing: the most remarkable character of the inscription seems to be in its punctuation. The letters upon the altar, at Ham, touch one another, and there is no separation of any kind between the words: here, on the contrary, almost all the words are divided by three or four points placed in a perpendicular direction, except at the end of the phrases, where stops are wholly wanting. At Ham, also, the letters are cut into the stone, while at Magneville they are drawn with a brush, with a kind of black pigment.

G.

INDEX.

A.

_Abbey_, of Ardennes,
Bec,
Bernay,
Bonport,
Cormeilles,
Ducler,
Jumieges,
Preaux,
St. Evroul,
St. Georges de Bocherville,
St. Stephen, at Caen,
St. Taurinus,
Trinity at Caen.
_Academy of Druids_, at Bayeux.
_Academy of Sciences_, at Caen.
_Agnes Sorel_, buried at Jumieges,
her statue destroyed by the Huguenots,
her tomb destroyed at the revolution,
inscription upon.
_Amphitheatre, Roman_, found near Lisieux.
_Amyot, Mr_. his paper on the Bayeux tapestry.
_Andelys_, origin of the name,
history of,
seat of an early monastery,
great house at,
birth-place of Poussin.
_Andromeda polifolia_, found near Jumieges.
_Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury_, a monk at Bec.
_Aqueduct, Roman_, remains of, at Vieux.
_Archbishops of Rouen_, their palace at Gaillon.
_Arches, trefoil-headed_, early specimen of, at Jumieges.
_Ardennes_, abbey of, near Caen.
_Arlette, mother of the Conqueror_, native of Falaise.
_Arnulf_, bishop of Lisieux.
_Arthur, Prince_, knighted at Gournay.
_Asselin_, forbids the interment of the Conqueror.
_Audinus, bishop of Evreux_, authorizes Henry Ist to burn the city.
_Augustodurum_, probably the site of, at Vieux.

B.

_Bailiffs_, first established in Normandy under Philip Augustus,
_Baiocco of Naples_, named after Bayeux,
_Bas-relief_, in the church of St. Georges de Bocherville,
_Baudius_, professor of law for a short time at Caen,
_Bayeux_, seat of an academy of Druids,
Roman relics found near, but no Druidic,
a Roman station,
probably the Næomagus Viducassium,
its ancient name,
its importance under the early French kings,
its history,
the place where the Norman princes were educated,
castle,
situation, population, and trade,
tapestry,
cathedral,
_Bayeux, Roman_, probably destroyed by the Saxons,
_Bec, abbey of_, its present state,
former income and patronage,
church described by Du Plessis,
founded by Hellouin,
history,
seminary for eminent men,
_Belenus_, worshipped near Bayeux,
_Berengarius_, his tenets impugned by Lanfranc,
condemned by the council of Brionne,
_Bernay_, abbey of,
church,
burial-ground,
population and trade,
costume of the females,
_Bernieres_, church of,
_Blanche, wife of Charles the Bel_, confined in Château Gaillard,
_Bochart_, one of the founders of the academy at Caen,
_Boileau_, his eulogium on Malherbe,
_Bonport_, abbey of,
_Borghese, Princess of_, original letter by,
_Bouillon, Duke of_, Lord of Evreux, at the revolution,
_Bourg-Achard_, seat of an abbey, dedicated to St. Eustatius,
leaden font,
_Bourg-Theroude_,
_Bourgueville_, his antiquities of Caen,
present at the exhumation of the Conqueror's remains,
_Boy, bishop_, annually elected at Caen,
_Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse_, church of,
_Brionne_, situation of,
seat of the council which condemned the tenets of Berengarius,
castle,
_Brito_, his account
of the siege of Gournay,
of Château Gaillard,
of the murder of the French garrison of Evreux,
of Caen.
_Broglie_, church of.
_Bruce, David_, a resident in Château Gaillard.
_Buck-wheat_,
much cultivated in Lower Normandy,
etymology of its French name.

C.

_Caen_,
arrival at,
distant view of,
trade and population,
situation,
grand cours,
costume of females,
house-rent,
foundation,
described by Brito,
etymology of the name,
fortifications,
Château de Calix,
castle,
chapel in the castle,
hospital,
royal abbeys,
college,
palace,
museum,
library,
universities,
men of eminence,
academy,
Malherbe,
history,
neighborhood abundant in fossil remains,
seen from the road leading to La Délivrande.
_Caen-stone_,
large quarries of,
formerly much used in England.
_Cambre_.
_Cambremer, Canon of_, tale respecting, at Bayeux.
_Cannon_, first used in France, at the siege of Pont Audemer.
_Canons_, four statues of, at Evreux.
_Castle_, of Bayeux,
Brionne,
Caen,
Creully,
Falaise,
Gisors,
Montfort,
Neufmarché.
_Cathedral of Bayeux_, founded by St. Exuperius,
history,
described,
crypt,
stripped of its relics,
revenue,
right of mintage.
_Cathedral of Evreux_, often destroyed,
its present state,
little injured by the Huguenots,
founded by St. Taurinus.
_Cathedral of Lisieux_, now the parish church of St. Peter,
described,
remarkable tomb in.
_Cauchon, Peter_, bishop of Lisieux, president at the trial of Joan of Arc.
_Cecily_, daughter of the Conqueror, abbess at Caen.
_Chapel_, subterranean, in Bayeux cathedral,
in the castle at Caen,
in the castle at Falaise,
of St. Adrian,
of La Délivrande.
_Chapel in the castle at Caen_, built fronting the east
_Chapels_, stone-roofed, in Ireland, of Norman origin
_Charles the Bad_, born in the Château de Navarre
_Charters_, of the abbey of St. Georges de Bocherville
_Château de Navarre_
_Château Gaillard_, its situation
described
account of, by Brito
history
_Château de Calix_, at Caen
_Chesnut-timber_, formerly much used in Normandy
_Church_, of the abbey of Bec
Bernieres
Bernay
Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse
Broglie
Creully
Ducler
Ecouis
Falaise
Gisors
Gournay
Jumieges
St. Peter's at ditto
Louviers
Moulineaux
Pont Audemer
Pont-de-l'Arche
St. Germain de Blancherbe
St. Gervais, at Falaise
St. Georges de Bocherville
St. Giles, at Evreux
St. James, at Lisieux
St. John, at Caen
St. Michael, at ditto
St. Nicholas, at ditto
St. Peter, at ditto
St. Stephen's abbey, at ditto
St. Stephen, at ditto
Trinity, at ditto
Trinity at Falaise
Vernon
_Cider_, the common beverage, in Normandy
first introduced by the Normans
_Cocherel_
_Coins, golden_, struck at Bayeux, under the first French kings
_Colline des deux amans_, priory of
_Cormeilles_, abbey of
_Corneille_, buried at Andelys
_Costume_, at Bernay
at Caen
_Coupe gorge_, colony established at, by Napoléon
_Creully_, castle
church
_Crocodile fossil_, found near Caen
_Croissanville_

D.

_Dalechamps_, native of Caen _D'Amboise, Cardinal_, built the palace at Gaillon _Darnétal_ _De Boissy_, bishop of Bayeux, his epitaph. _De la Rue, Abbé_, professor of history at Caen, is preparing an account of Caen, his paper on the Bayeux tapestry. _Douce, Mr._, his illustration of the sculpture at St. Georges de Bocherville. _Douvre_. _Druids_, academy of, at Bayeux. _Dubois Louis_, his discoveries among the ruins of Old Lisieux, preserved the original M.S. of Ordericus Vitalis, is preparing the history of Lisieux. _Ducarel_, his description of a pavement in the palace at Caen. _Ducler_, convent, parish church. _Du Perron_, cardinal, bishop of Evreux. _Du Plessis_, his opinion as to Turold on the Bayeux tapestry, description of the abbey church of Bec.

E.

_Ecouis, church of_,
burial-place of John and Enguerrand de Marigny,
singular epitaph.
_Epitaph_,
enigmatical at Ecouis,
of John de Boissy,
on the exterior of Bayeux cathedral.
_Evreux_,
destroyed by Henry Ist,
cathedral,
abbey of St. Taurinus,
history,
present appearance.
_Evreux, Old_, a Roman station.

F.

_Falaise_,
situation of,
etymology of the name,
castle,
Talbot's tower,
chapel in castle,
history,
firmly attached to the League,
fortifications,
inhabitants _true Normans_,
population and trade,
churches.
_Fastolf, Sir John_, governor of Caen.
_Flambart, Ralph_, bishop of Durham, seizes Lisieux.
_Fleury, Cardinal_, abbot at Caen.
_Fonts_, seldom seen in French churches.
_Font_, curiously sculptured, at Magneville.
_Font, leaden_, at Bourg-Achard.

G.

_Gaillon_, vineyards near,
present state of,
ceded to the archbishop of Rouen,
made by the treaty of Louviers the frontier town of the Duchy,
_Gisors_, castle, appearance of,
history,
place of interview between Henry IInd, and Philip Augustus,
arms of the town,
castle, described,
church of,
banded column in the church,
_Glass painted_, at the abbey of Bonport,
in the church of Pont de l'Arche,
_Gournay_, origin of,
present appearance,
history,
siege described by Brito,
arms of,
place where Prince Arthur was knighted,
church,
remarkable sculpture on the capitals,
_Gournay, Hugo de_,
_Guibray_, fair of,
_Gurney, Hudson_, his paper on the Bayeux tapestry,

H.

_Harcourt_, castle of, _Hellouin_, founder of the abbey of Bec, his epitaph, _Hennuyer, John_, bishop of Lisieux, said to have saved the Huguenots, _Henry Ist_, kept prisoner by Robert at Bayeux, destroyed the city, _History, ecclesiastical, of Ordericus Vitalis_, materials for a new edition of, original manuscript, manuscript copies, _Holy Trinity_, church of, at Falaise, _Honfleur_, situation of, described, _Horses, Norman_, present price of, _Hospital at Caen_, founded in the thirteenth century, _Hoveden_, his account of the interview between Henry IInd, and Philip Augustus, near Gisors, _Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury_, a monk of Bec, _Hubert, M._, discovered the site of the Neomagus Lexoviorum, _Huet_, his _Origines de Caen_, one of the founders of the academy at Caen, _Huguenots_, destroy the tomb and violate the remains of the Conqueror, _Hume, David_, his opinion on the Bayeux tapestry, _Hypocaust, Roman_, found at Vieux,

I.

_Inscription_, on the font at Magneville,
_John, King_, murders the French garrison of Evreux,
_Isatis tinctoria_, cultivated in France under Napoléon,
_Jumieges, abbey of_, its foundation,
original building,
history,
church,
Salle des Chevaliers,
church of St. Peter,
monuments,
_Ivory chest_, in Bayeux cathedral,

K.

_Knights, Templars_, house of, at Louviers,

L.

_Lamouroux, M_. professor of natural history at Caen,
his publications,
_Lanfranc_, settled at Bec,
first schoolmaster in Normandy,
first abbot of St. Stephen's,
_Langevin, M_., author of the history of Falaise,
_Langlois, M_., his portrait,
his work on Norman Antiquities,
_Le Beuf, Abbé_, his opinion of Vieux,
_Le Brasseur_, his account of the statues of four canons at Evreux,
_Léproserie de Beauîleu_,
_Letter, original_, from Princess Borghese,
_Library, public_, at Caen,
_Lisieux_, situation and trade of,
its see suppressed in 1801,
cathedral,
tomb in cathedral,
town probably founded in the sixth century,
ancient names of,
history of,
church of St. Jacques,
_Littleton, Lord_, his opinion of the Bayeux tapestry,
_Louviers_, treaty of,
population,
church,
house of knights templars,
history,

M.

_Magneville_, font at, _Malherbe_, native of Caen, _Mallet, Anthony_, his statement of Hennuyer's saving the Calvinists, _Maréchal de Belle Isle_, his monument, _Margaret of Burgundy_, immured in Château Gaillard, _Marigny, Enguerrand de_, buried at Ecouis, his mausoleum destroyed at the revolution, _Marriage ceremony_, in France, _Matilda, wife of the Conqueror_, supposed portrait of, her seal buried in the church of the Trinity, her tomb destroyed by the Huguenots, her remains lately found and new tomb raised, _Maud, Empress_, her expostulations with her father as to the place of her burial, _Mazarine, Cardinal_, abbot of St. Stephen's, _Melons_, cultivated on a large scale, near Lisieux, _Misereres_, sculptured, in Bayeux cathedral, _Misletoe_, commonly hung over inn-doors, near Caen, _Money_, struck by the chapter of Bayeux, how marked, _Montfaucon_, his engravings of the portraits of the Conqueror and his family, _Montfort_, castle of, _Moulineaux_, church of, _Mount Phaunus_, temple of, near Bayeux, _Museum_, at Caen, _Musicians_, sculptured at St. Georges de Bocherville,

N.

_Napoléon_, establishment formed by him at the pass of _Coupe Gorge_, his attempt to make a naval station at Caen, _Navarre, kings of_, lords of Evreux, _Navarre, Château de_, _Næomagus Viducassium_, probably the modern Bayeux, _Neomagus Lexoviorum_, site of, lately discovered, _Neufmarché_, castle of, _Normandy_, divided anew, under Philip Augustus, _Notre Dame de la Délivrande_, chapel of,

O.

_Odo, bishop of Bayeux_, rebuilds the cathedral,
his life and character.
_Ordericus Vitalis_, his account of the destruction of Evreux,
his account of St. Taurinus,
sketch of his life,
his ecclesiastical history,
his reflections on the death of the Conqueror
_Ornaments_ on the spandrils of the arches in Bayeux cathedral.
_Oxen_, breed of, near Caen.

P.

_Paintings, fresco_, in Bayeux cathedral. _Passports_, regulations respecting, in France. _Patye, John, Canon of Cambremer_, legend concerning, at Bayeux. _Pays de Bray_. _Pistae_, the site of, occupied by Pont de l'Arche. _Pont Audemer_, its situation, history, churches. _Pont de l'Arche_, seat of a palace under Charles the Bald, origin of the name, church. _Portraits_, of the Conqueror and family. _Poussin_, born at Andelys, if his example has been favorable to French art. _Preaux_, abbey of. _Priory, des deux Amans_.

R.

_Rabelais_, his autograph. _Reseda luteola_, cultivated near Rouen. _Richelieu, Cardinal_, abbot of St. Stephen's at Caen. _Roads in France_, compared with those in England. _Robert the Devil_, his castle near Moulineaux. _Romance_, subjects borrowed from, sculptured on a capital in St. Peter's, at Caen. _Rupierre, William of, Bishop of Lisieux_, resists the power of King John.

S.

_St. Adrian_, Chapel of, near Rouen. _St. Clotilda_, her fountain, at Andelys still worshipped there. _St. Evroul_, abbey of, founded by William de Gerouis, residence of Ordericus Vitalis. _St. Georges de Bocherville_, abbey of, founded by Ralph de Tancarville, its history, abbey church described sculpture in ditto chapter-house. _St. Germain_, church of, at Pont Audemer. _St. Germain de Blancherbe_, church of. _St. Gervais_, church of, at Falaise. _St. Giles_, church of, at Evreux. _St. Jacques_, church of at Lisieux. _St. John_, church of, at Caen. _St. Lascivus_, bishop of Bayeux. _St. Lupus_, bishop of Bayeux, so called from destroying the wolves. _St. Maimertus_, subterranean chapel dedicated to, in Bayeux cathedal. _St. Michael_, church of, in the suburb of Vaucelles, at Caen. _St. Nicholas_, church of at Caen its roof like those of the Irish stone-roofed chapels. _St. Peter_, church of at Caen sculpture upon the capital of one of the columns. _St. Philibert_, founder of Jumieges. _St. Regnobert_, bishop of Bayeux, his chasuble kept in the cathedral, domestic animals blessed on his feast-day. _St. Stephen_, church of, at Caen. _St. Stephen_, abbey of, at Caen, its privileges now used as the college. _St. Stephen, abbey church of_, at Caen, described formed on the the Roman model burial-place of the Conqueror. _St. Taurinus_, founder of Evreux cathedral his fight with the devil, his shrine crypt, in which he was buried. _St. Taurinus, abbey of_ at Evreux its privileges ancient architecture in the church crypt. _St. Vitalis_, his feast celebrated annually at Evreux. _St. Ursinus_, privileges enjoyed by the Canons, at Lisieux, on his vigil and feast-day. _Saxons_, established about Bayeux, where many words from their language still exist. _Screens_, of rare occurrence in French churches. _Sculpture_, in the abbey church of St. Georges de Bocherville, in the chapter-house of the same abbey, in the abbey church of Jumieges, on the capitals in the church at Gournay, on a capital in the abbey church at Bernay, over the high altar at Bernay, on a tomb in Lisieux cathedral, on a capital in St. Peter's at Caen, on the capitals of the pillars in the crypt at Bayeux cathedral, _Seal_, supposed to belong to Matilda, wife of the Conqueror, _Sheep_, Norman breed of, _Siege_, of Château Gaillard, _Statues_, in the chapter-house of the abbey of St. Georges de Bocherville, of William the Conqueror, at Caen, _Stothard, C.A._, his drawings of the Bayeux tapestry, his opinion on its antiquity, _String-course_, remarkable, in the church of _Notre Dame des Prés_, at Pont Audemer, _Superstitions_, still remaining in Normandy,

T.

_Tancarville, Ralph_, chamberlain to the Conqueror, and founder of the
abbey of St. Georges de Bocherville,
_Tapestry, Bayeux_, accounts of, published by Montfaucon and Lancelot,
referred by them to Matilda, Queen of the Conqueror,
figure from,
its antiquity denied by Lord Littleton, Hume, and the Abbé de la Rue,
when first described,
reasons for believing in its antiquity,
formerly kept at the cathedral,
exhibited during the revolution at Paris,
described,
_Tassillon_, confined at Jumieges,
_Tassilly_, ancient tombs found at,
_Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury_ a monk of Bec,
_Thomas à Becket_, retired during his disgrace to Lisieux,
_Tiles, painted_, in the palace at Caen,
supposed to prove the antiquity of heraldic bearings,
_Tombeau des énervez_, at Jumieges,
_Tombs, ancient_, at Cocherel,
in Lisieux cathedral,
at Tassilly,
_Torigny marble_,
_Trinity Holy, abbey of the_, at Caen, when built,
used as a fortress as well as a nunnery
its income
privileges.
_Trinity Holy, church of the abbey of the_, at Caen, now a work-house,
described,
its spires destroyed by Charles, King of Navarre.
_Turnebus_, Adrian, native of Andelys.
_Turold_, founder of Bourg-Theroude, represented on the Bayeux tapestry.

U.

_University of Caen_, founded by Henry VIth,
abolished and restored by Charles VIIth,
esteemed the third in France.

V.

_Vernon_, its situation,
formerly the seat of a royal palace,
church.
_Vieux_, a Roman station,
etymology of the name.
_Vines_, formerly cultivated at Jumieges,
also at Caen and Lisieux.

W.

_Wace_, a resident at Caen.
_Whales_, formerly caught near Jumieges.
_William the Conqueror_, his statue at Caen,
supposed figure of him on a capital in the church of the abbey
of the Trinity,
buried in the abbey-church of St. Stephen,
his epitaph,
his death and burial, and the disturbance of his remains,
his palace at Caen,
fresco-paintings of him and his family,
born at Falaise,
receives the homage of the English, as successor to Edward, at Bayeux.
_William of Jumieges_, his account of the attachment of the Empress
Maud to Bec.