[Illustration:  Musicians, from the Chapter-House at St. Georges]

The chapter-house, previously to the revolution, contained a tomb-stone[9], uninscribed and exhibiting only a sculptured sword, under which it was supposed that either Ralph de Tancarville himself, the founder of the abbey, or his grandson, William, lay interred.  It is of the latter that the records of the monastery tell, how, on the fifth day after he girded himself with the military belt, he came to the church, and deposited his sword upon the altar, and subsequently redeemed it by various donations, and by confirming to the monks their right to the several benefices in his domain, which had been ceded to them by his grandfather.—­Here then, I quit you:  in a few days I shall have paid my devotions at the shrine of Jumieges:—­meanwhile, in the language of the writers of the elder day, I close this sheet with.

  EXPLICIT FELICITER Stus.  GEORGIUS DE BOCHERVILLA;
  DEO GRATIAS.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  Histoire de la Haute Normandie, II. p. 266.  VOL.  II.]

[Footnote 2:  Ann.  Benedict. III. p. 674, 675.—­This charter was not among the archives of the monastery; but I am informed by M. Le Prevost, that several are still in existence, most of them granted by the family of the founder, but some by Kings of England.  One of the latter is by Richard Coeur de Lion, and his seal of red wax still remains appended to it, in fine preservation.  The seal, on one side, represents the king seated upon his throne, with a pointed beard, having his crown on his head, and a sword in one hand, and sceptre in the other:  on the other side, he is on horseback, with his head covered with a cylindrical helmet, surmounted with a very remarkable crest, in the form of a fan:  on his shield are plainly distinguishable the three lions of England.—­From among the charters granted by the Tancarville family, M. Le Prevost has sent me copies of two which have never yet been printed; but which appear to deserve insertion here.  One is from Lucy, daughter of William de Tancarville, and grand-daughter of Ralph, the chamberlain.—­“Notum sit Ricardo de Vernon and Willelmo Camerario de Tancarvilla, et veteribus et juvenibus, quod Lucia, filia Willelmi, Camerarii de Tancarvilla, pro anima sua et pro animabus antecessorum suorum, ad ecclesiam Sti.  Georgii de Bauchervilla dedit molendinum de Waldinivilla, quod est subter aliud molendinum et molendinum de Waldinval, libere et quiete, et insuper ecclesiam de Seonvilla, salva elemosina Roberti sacerdotis in vita sua, si dignus est habendi eam.  Et post mortem Willelmi capellani sui de Sancto Flocello, ad ecclesiam supra dictam dedit decimam de vavassoribus de Seolvilla, quam dedit in elemosina habendam Willelmo capellano tota vita bene et in pace et secure, et decimas de custodiis totius terre sue que est in Constantino.—­Ego