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EXAMPLES OF MEDIÆVAL SEALS.

and what is above stated, on the authority of Gallia Christiana, as to the family is not easily reconcileable with it. Only one Lancelin is there mentioned, and no Fulk: the grandfather, however, of that name may have been a younger son. Peter had been a canon, and probably dean, of Beauvais before he was elected bishop in 1114. He held the see till his death in 1133, and appears to have been an active prelate in the affairs of his diocese. He was present at the councils held at Beauvais in 1114 and 1120. In the meanwhile he had been sent by Louis VI., with the abbot of Morigny, on an embassy to Pope Calixtus II. In 1128 he was at the Council of Troyes, and in 1132 Pope Innocent II., in his progress through France, when compelled to leave Rome for a while, paid him a visit at Beauvais, about which time, if not on that occasion, the relics of Saints Just and Geremar were translated to new shrines. In the Necrologium of his church he is thus mentioned: "VI. Id. Novembr. obiit Petrus episcopus, qui dedit nobis duas domes, unam in claustro, alteram in burgo." There were other acts of his quite as memorable, but this was probably considered more likely to awaken the gratitude and win the prayers of the chapter.

The seal is attached to a charter, dated at Reauvais in 1123,^[1] whereby Peter confirmed to the Monastery of St. Martin des Champs, Paris, on the application of Matthew the prior, all the property that had been given to them in his diocese, as well ecclesiastical as lay, saving the rights of his church: in which were comprised the church of St. Omer; the toll-traverse in Milly every tenth day of all things carried through, for which such toll was payable; a liushel of wheat in a certain mill in " Uns," probably Onz-en- Bray; the church of Meru; the church of St. Leonorius, at Beaumont; the tithe of "Meinecurte;" the church of "Cressonessart;" the land with the wood and villeins (hospitibus^[2]) which the monastery had of the gift of Baldwin "de Buitinangulo," and of the fee of Lancelin of Beauvais (probably a relation of the bishop). "apud Dedumuilerium et

↑ Add. Chart. 8535
↑ The Hospites, hostes of the French law, seem at this time to have differed little from our villani; they were opened in cultivating the soil, and were regraded as belonging to it. The word may probably be referred to the designation given by the Burgundian invaders to the Gauls, on whom they quartered themselves, and whose lands the shared.

[1] Add. Chart. 8535

[2] The Hospites, hostes of the French law, seem at this time to have differed little from our villani; they were opened in cultivating the soil, and were regraded as belonging to it. The word may probably be referred to the designation given by the Burgundian invaders to the Gauls, on whom they quartered themselves, and whose lands the shared.

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