[107] [I am most prompt to plead guilty to a species of Hippopotamos
    error, in having here translated the word Allemagne into
    GERMANY!  Now, although this translation, per se, be correct, yet, as
    applicable to the text, it is most incorrect—­as the Allemagne
    in question happens to be a Parish in the neighbourhood of
    Caen!  My translator, in turn, treats me somewhat tenderly when he
    designates this as “une meprise fort singuliere.” vol. ii. p. 25.]

[108] The plate of Ducarel, here alluded to, forms the fourth plate in his
    work; affording, from the starch manner in which it is engraved, an
    idea of one of the most disproportioned, ugly buildings imaginable. 
    Mr. Cotman has favoured us with a good bold etching of the West Front,
    and of the elevation of compartments of the Nave; The former is at
    once faithful and magnificent; but the lower part wants characteristic
    markings.

[109] It should be noticed that, “besides the immense benefactions which
    William in his life time conferred upon this abbey, he, on his death,
    presented thereto the crown which he used to wear at all high
    festivals, together with his sceptre and rod:  a cup set with
    precious stones; his candlesticks of gold, and all his regalia:  as
    also the ivory bugle-horn which usually hung at his back.”
    Anglo-Norman Antiquities, p. 51. note.  The story of the breaking
    open of the coffin by the Calvinists, and finding the Conqueror’s
    remains, is told by Bourgueville—­who was an eye witness of these
    depredations, and who tried to “soften the obdurate hearts” of the
    pillagers, but in vain.  This contemporaneous historian observes that,
    in his time “the abbey was filled with beautiful and curious
    stained-glass windows and harmonious organs, which were all broken and
    destroyed—­and that the seats, chairs, &c. and all other wooden
    materials were consumed by fire,” p.171.  Huet observes that a “Dom
    Jean de Baillehache and Dom Matthieu de la Dangie,” religious of St.
    Stephen’s, took care of the monument of the Conqueror in the year
    1642, and replaced it in the state in which it appeared in Huet’s
    time.” Origines de Caen; p.248.  The revolution was still more
    terrible than the Calvinistic fury;—­for no traces of the monument are
    now to be seen.

[110] The west window is almost totally obscured by a most gigantic organ
    built close to it, and allowed to be the finest in all France.  This
    organ is so big, as to require eleven large bellows, &c. Ducarel,
    p.57.  He then goes on to observe, that “amongst the plate preserved in
    the treasury of this church, is a curious SILVER SALVER, about ten
    inches in diameter, gilt,