Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

12 THE SATS [a.d.
Garini Pillepot, et Radulphus presbyter de Vrou; cum his quoque concesse-
runt ecclesias de Vrou cum decimis et quatuor acris terrae et dimidia cum
terra sacerdotis, quod totum dederat Osmelinus qui cognominabatur Avenel-
lus, Sancto Martino, pro salute animae suae et antecessorum suorum ; con-
cesserunt etiam quod Gaufredus filius Oderelli dederat Sancto Martino quic-
quid decimae habebat in parochia de Vrou, pro qua fundatione habuit ipse
Gaufredus cum beneficio concesso monasterii triginta solidos cenoman-
nenses ; adhuc quoque concesserunt quod Guaschelinus de Vrou dederat
Sancto Martino quicquid decimae habebat in parochia de Vrou et de Sayo,
nihil sibi reservans, cum duabus acris terrae ; et pro hac donatione cum
concesso monasterii benehcio habuit quatuordecim solid, cenomannenses
et unum pullum equorum pro decern et octo solidis cenomannensibus, teste
ipso et Radulpho presbytero, et fratre ejusdem Roberti, et Christiano de
Furcis etiam concedentibus : Dedit Hugo de Juvigneyo Sancto Martino
medietatem ipsius ecclesiae, cujus alteram medietatem nos habemus de
dono Picot et uxoris ejus Adeloyae, et unam acram prati pro concesso sibi
beneficio monasterii, cum viginti solidis census. Signum Rogerii comitis,
signum Picot, signum Roberti filii ejus, signum Henrici filii Picot, signum
Adeloyae uxoris Picot, signum Ricardi Capellani."
The italics are those of Gal. Chr.
We now come to that great enterprise which brought de
Says and many other barons across the Narrow Sea. The
Conquest of England by the Normans is the most important
event in history since the fall of Rome. Nothing in the Mid-
dle Ages can be compared to it for grandeur of conception,
completeness of result, and abiding influence on the world.
The Rolls, as they are called, of the knights who fought at
Hastings have an antiquarian and genealogical interest un-
equalled by anything similar commemorating success in arms.
There are variations, omissions, and probably repetitions in
these famous lists of names. Say is found in Holinshed but
not in Duchesne, in Leland but not at Dives, although
" Roger Picot " figures there. Dives is a little town, once a
seaport of Normandy, in whose harbor William first assembled
his fleet for the invasion of England ; and on a wall in the old
Church of Notre Dame are inscribed the names of the knights
who gathered there at his summons. More reliable, however,
than any of these is the metrical poem on Rollo and the