on his manor in Caen, in the parish of Saint Sauveur, for the same purpose. (January, 1289.) [R. 48436] 60 [no No].-Copy of letters patents of King Henry VI. dated April 17, 1447, to his "Bailly" in Caen, for Guillaume de la Mouche, burgher of Caen, relating to certain mills on the river Orne, near the bridge of St. Peter, in Caen, the building of which the Abbot and monastery of St. Stephen oppose. [R. 48436] 61 [no N°].-The Parlement of Caen (at the request of the Abbot and the Abbey of St. Stephen) forbids Demoiselle Anne de la Grand Rue and others to hold religious services of the Protestant Churches in the barony of Allemagne (Calvados, Con Caen). May 24, 1591. CAEN (Calvados). ABBEY OF LA SAINTE-TRINITÉ. O.S.B. [Women]. Dioc. [R. 48417] 62 [47].-Bull of Pope Nicholas III. to confirm all the privileges of the Abbey. Nicolaus episcopus servus servorum Dei Dilectis in Christo filiabus . . . Abbatisse et conventui monasterii sancte Trinitatis de Cadomo, ordinis sancti Benedicti, Baiocensis diocesis, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Cum sicut ex parte vestra fuit propositum coram nobis vos et que in monasterio vestro vos precesserunt pro tempore quibusdam privilegiis et indulgenciis a predecessoribus nostris Romanis pontificibus monasterio vestro concessis, propter simplicitatem et juris ignorantiam use non fueritis temporibus retroaciis. Nos vestris supplicationibus inclinati monasterii ejusdem, indempnitati precavere volentes utendi de cetero eisdem privilegiis et indulgentiis dummodo eis non sit per prescriptionem vel alias legitime derogatum, auctoritate vobis presentium concedimus facilitatem. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre concessionis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum. Datum Viterbii X. kal. Septembris. Pontificatus nostri anno primo. (Viterbo, Aug. 23, 1378.) [Seal missing] on the fold: Caly, and . . . XII. On the back: Ex parte Johannis de Sancto Michaele littera renovans [R. 48417] 63 [48].-Benedict XIII. appoints the Abbot of St. Lo to arbitrate between the Abbess and the Bishop of Bayeux in a dispute about the Church of Ouistreham (Calvados, Con Douvres). Benedictus episcopus servus servorum Dei, dilecto filio, Abbati monasterii sancti Laudi Constanciensis diocesis salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Sua nobis dilecte in Christo filie. . . . Abbatissa et conventus monasterii sancte Trinitatis de Cadomo, ordinis sancti Benedicti, Baiocensis diocesis, petitione monstrarunt quod licet jurisdictio spiritualis ac mixtum ac merum imperium in ecclesia parrochiali de Oestrehamio dicte diocesis ac ipsius parrochia ac in personas consistentes in dictis ecclesia et parrochia ad Abbatissam pro tempore existentem et conventum dicti monasterii ac Archidiaconum de Cadomo in ecclesia Baiocensi qui est pro tempore de antiqua et approbata et hactenus pacifice observata consuetudine comuniter pertineant; et tam eedem abbatissa et conventus ac ille que in dicto monasterio precesserunt easdem quam archidiaconus de Cadomo in eadem ecclesia qui nunc est et ejus predecessores qui fuerunt pro tempore, fuissent et tunc essent in possessione pacifica seu quasi exercii jurisdictionis ac meri et mixti imperii hujusmodi a tempore cujus contrarii memoria non existit, ac dudum cum inter Robertum Barbulee juniorem, laicum, et Ricardam filiam Mathei Potori, laici dicte diocesis, inter quos sponsalia contracta fuerant, banna in dicta ecclesia cujus ipsa Ricarda parrochiana existebat ut est moris publicarentur, Radulphus Doguet, laicus dicte diocesis, asserens se priusquam dictus Robertus cum eadem Ricarda sponsalia contraxisse hujusmodi matrimonio contrahendo se opposuisset, ac Johannes de Noa, rector dicte parrochialis ecclesie, Matheo et Radulpho predictis ut coram. . . . Officiali Abbatisse et Conventus ac Archidiaconi predictorum super oppositione hujusmodi comparerent certam diem assignasset. Officialis Baiocensis falso pretendens jurisdictionem in dictis ecclesia et parrochia et in personas consistentes in eis ad Episcopum Baiocensem pro tempore existentem pertinere ac dictum rectorem ex assignatione hujusmodi graviter deliquisse et in rectorem propterea ad solvendum emendam inique condempnavit, ac sibi inhibuit ne de cetero tales assignationes faceret coram Officiali Abbatisse et conventus ac Archidiaconi predictorum sed coram ipso officiali Baiocensi. Propter que pro parte dictarum Abbatisse et conventus rem suam agi conspicientium ac metuentium exinde sibi imposterum prejudicium generari in quantum eas tangebat quam primum premissa ad earum noticiam pervenerunt, fuit ad Sedem Apostolicam appellatum, quo circa discretioni tue per apostolica scripta mandamus quatinus vocatis que fuerunt evocandi et auditis huic inde propositis quod canonicum fuerit appellatione remota decernas, faciens quod decreveris per censuram ecclesiasticam firmiter observari. Testes autem qui fuerunt nominati si se gratia odio vel timore subtraxerunt censura simili, appellatione cessante, compellas veritati testimonium perhibere. Datum Saone XVI kl. Junii Pontificatus nostri anno duodecimo. (Savona, May 17, 1406.) [Seal missing. Fold cut.] On the back: : Mundetur B.G. [R. 48418] 64 [59].-An agreement between Hugo de Giberville, knt., and the Abbey concerning the manor of Blainville (Calvados, Con Douvres). (Aug., 1257.) [R. 48418] 65 [60].-Grant by Robert dit l'Eveque, of Foulbec, to the Abbey of a rent on a land in Mondeville (Calvados, Con Caen). (May, 1262.) [R. 48418] 66 [61].-The Bailly of Caen gives back to the Abbess of La Trinité, a clerk, who was formerly in her jail at Ouistreham, admitting that the Abbey has the spiritual jurisdiction in this place. (1292.) [R. 48418] 67 [62].-Vidimus, dated 1437, of a letter of the Abbess Marguerite de Thieuville, to the Lady Marie d'Esquay, a nun of the Abbey, ordering her to come back to the convent. (1437.) [R. 48418] 68 [63].—Vidimus dated July 4, 1487, of a charter of Peter, Abbot of La-Croix-Saint-Leufroy, by which he admits his obligation to pay an annual rent of 40 s.p. to the Abbey of La Trinité for a piece of land near Gaillon (Eure, Arrt Louviers). (1247.) [R. 48419] 69 [64].-License to give her blessing granted to Laurence de Budos, Abbess of La Trinité, by Jean de Nouy, vicar-general of Cardinal Arnaud d'Ossat, Bp. of Bayeux. (Dec. 11, 1602.) [R. 48419] 70 [65].-Official report of the conveyance to the Abbess of the prebend of Le Cornet de Colleville (Colleville s/Orne, Calvados, Con Douvres). (May 2, 1547.) CONDÉ-SUR-IFS 1 (Calvados, Con Bretteville-sur-Laize). [R. 48435] 71 [186].-"Karissimo domino suo Willelmo camerario de Tancarvilla militi et eius senescallis, Willelmus de Maigneio miles, 1 These two records come very likely from the Hospital of Saint-Jean of Falaise, where the press-mark on the back: "Layette 16e Liasse lère," was probably written. We know by one of King Henry II.'s charters [Delisle No. 29] that this hospital was granted lands in Condé by the said. Guillaume de Maigney. merarii. salutem. Noveritis quod ego inquisivi utrum decima de Conde que vocatur parva decima est de feodo camerarii aut non. Quapropter notifico vobis quod inquisivi diligenter quod non est de feodo caEt hoc vobis et omnibus aliis per meas litteras pendentes significo. Valete." (ca. 1157.) [R. 48435] 72 [187].—“ Karissimo domino suo Guillelmo camerario de Tanquarvilla militi, suisque senescallis, Robertus de Plancha, miles, salutem. Noveritis quod ego diligenter et fideliter cum domino Guillelmo de Maigneio, milite, inquisivi super decima de Condeio que vocatur parva decima utrum sit de feodo camerarii vel non. Tamen didisci et a pluribus fide dignis cognovi quod decima illa movet de feodo domini Ricardi de Corceio militis et adhuc permanet et quod dominus Guillelmus de Maigneio illud feodum tenet de domino Ricardo de Corceio, milite; et dominus Robertus de Yz tenet illud feodum de dicto Guillelmo milite per homagium. Et hoc vobis et omnibus aliis per meam inquisitionem cum dicto Guillelmo milite legitime factam litterarum mearum pendentium testimonio significo. Valete." (ca. 1157.) FÉCAMP (Seine Inférieure, Arrt Le Havre). ABBEY OF LA TRINITÉ. O.S.B. Dioc. Rouen. [R. 48431] 73 [165].—Achard the deacon "Achardus Levita" on becoming a monk in the Abbey of La Trinité grants to the same three "hospites" in Le Fresne (near Argences, Calvados, Con Troarn.) n.d. (ca. 1200.) [R. 48432] 74 [166].-Saffroy, son of Richard, son of Milon, parson of Argences, quits to the Abbey the Churches of Argences, viz.: the Church of St. Patrice, that of St. Jean with their chapels and appartenances. (April, 1208.) [R. 48432] 75 [167].-Settlement of a dispute between the Dean and Chapter of Bayeux, and the Abbey touching some rents which the Dean and Chapter were claiming from houses in Argences, Mondeville, Esmalemeivilla" and Ste Paix (near Caen). (1214.) [Seal.] [R. 48432] [168].-Samson, son of Helie d'Argences, quits to the Abbey all his rights as serjeant of the vineyards in Argences (of which he gives a complete list), for a gift of six acres of land in Argences granted to him by the Abbey. (June, 1231.) [R. 48433] 77 [169].—Similar quitclaims by Hugues Robiket, holding the same office, for a grant of seven acres of land in Argences. (June, 1231.) [R. 48433] 78 [170].-For the weal of their souls, for that of Mathieu, Count of Boulogne and Marie, his wife, that of Aubry, Count of Dammartin, and Mathilde, his wife, the grantor's father and mother, Renaud, Count of Boulogne, Ida his wife, and Mathilde, their daughter, grant to the Abbey the free passage at Harfleur (Seine Inférieure Con Montivilliers in the viscounty of Caux). n.d. "Testibus Engerranno de Maisnilla, Radulpho de Dumno Martino, fratre meo, Radulpho de Claro Monte, Rogero Braibenchon, Denisio de Colevilla, Balduino de Assevilla, Hugone de Milevilla, Willelmo de Esmalevilla, Willelmo de Basevilla, Waltero de Basevilla." (ca. 1200.) FONTENAY-LE-TESSON. (Calvados, Con Bourguebus, Cne St. Andre-deFontenay). ABBEY OF SAINT ETIENNE. O.S.B. Dioc. Bayeux. [R. 48427] 79 [137].—Raoul Taisson confirms the grant made to the Abbey by Robert, Aelis and Guillaume, the children of Raoul de Vaux, of some rents and a piece of land in the fee of the said Raoul Taisson. n.d. "Iis testibus: Rogero de Monte Acuto, Gaufrido de Combrai, Radulpho de Perci, Herberto de Vedois, Helia de Fontenes et multis aliis." (ca. 1200.) [R. 48427] 80 [138].-Grant by Thomas Graverene of Curcy (Calvados, Con Evrecy) to the Abbot and the Abbey of his fee in Vaucelles (a suburb of Caen) for a sum of 20s. and an annual ren of 2s. 2d. (Angevin money). n.d. (XIIIth cent. early.) [R. 48427] 81 [139].—Grant to the Abbey by Raoul de Merlay and Hadwise his wife, with the assent of their children, of the tithe of their mill “des sorsiz in pago Baiocasino" (Fosse-Soucy Calvados, Cne Maisons, Con Trevieres). n.d. Testibus his: Johanne de Fontennes, Dionisio de Curlis, Henrico Sichard, presbiteris, Ricardo de Merlaio, Theobaldo Pantolfi, militibus, Alberico de Louvigniaco, Willelmo del Doit, Unfredo Anglo et multis aliis" (early XIIIth). [R. 48428] 82 [147].—A declaration by André, Abbot of Fontenay, that his Abbey has the right of presentation to the Church of Barbery only one time out of three, the Abbey of Barbery having that right twice. Accordingly, in the year 1283, the Church being vacant by the death of Guillaume Le Cornu, the Abbey of Fontenay presents Robert de Fécamp for this benefice. (Nov. 30, 1283.) [R. 48428] 83 [148].—A declaration by the "Bailli" of Caen concerning the right of the Abbey to hold a vavassory in Sallenelles (Calvados, Con |