nitur in littore maris, nec
Baro, nec Miles, nec alius, qui a Rege teneat, talem piscem habet, si
valeat ultra 50 libras, _nisi per cartam eum habeat_."--See also
_Turner's Tour in Normandy_, II. p. 21, respecting the existence of a
whale-fishery near Jumieges, upon the authority of the writer of the
_Gesta Sancti Philiberti_.

[140] P. 589.--"Notum sit universis Ecclesiae Dei filiis, quod ego
Joannes, Comes Auci, pro stipendio militum et servientium, quos tenui
per guerram Regis, invadiavi maximam partem et optimam Thesauri Ecclesiae
S. Michaelis de Ulterior-Portu, duos videlicet Textus praetiosos, et duo
Thuribula praetiosa, unum calicem argenteum, et optime deauratum; cappas
caras viginti quatuor: casulam peratam et bonam: Praeterea, tot et tantis
gravaminibus praefatam Ecclesiam tam saepe gravavi, quam vices gravaminum
numerare non possem: quare pro multis pauca, pro magnis parua,
rependens, concedo, et in perpetuum do praedictae Ecclesiae, avenam et
frumentum de Verleio, quae pertinet ad Forestagium. Diligenter autem
haeredes exoro, ne Ecclesias terrae suae gravent, sed honorent et
protegant. Et si quid eis pro salute animae meae et parentum meorum dedi,
vel pro ablatis reddidi, in pace stabiliter tenere faciant: recordantes,
quod ipsi morituri sunt: Sicut praedecessores nostri mortui sunt."

PLATE LXVII.

CHURCH OF ANISY.

[Illustration: Plate 67. CHURCH OF ANISY, NEAR CAEN.]

The present plate has been introduced into this work, with the view of
exhibiting a Norman village church of unquestionable antiquity, having
its walls, on either side, built of a coarse dark stone, fashioned like
Roman bricks, and disposed in a zig-zag, or, as it is more commonly
termed, a herring-bone direction. A similar disposition of the masonry
is observable in a portion of the church of Perriers, the subject of the
following plate: it is still more conspicuous at the neighboring church
of St. Matthieu, already mentioned in this work.[141] The old church of
St. Croix, at St. Lo, and the lower part of the east end of the church
of St. Hildebert, at Gournai, exhibit the same peculiarity, which,
according to Mr. Turner, likewise exists in portions of the outer walls
of the castle at Arques, as well as in the keep of the castle at
Falaise.[142] These various instances, all of them taken from structures
which are beyond a doubt of Norman origin, will remove any hesitation as
to the Normans having practised this mode of buildi