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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

"Notum sit omnibus Cliristianis tarn viventibns quam futuris quod ego Hilbertus de Laceio una cum Hadrude uxore mea do inansionem tuisuicz Sancte Trinitati de monte rotomagensi. terram scilicet cum aqua et pratis et silvis omnibusque ad ipsam mansionem attinentibus pro anima mea atque domini mei Wilielmi regis et animabus parentum et amicorum meorum. nee non et uxoris mee. filiique mei Hugonis. pro eo quod et ipse supradictus filius mens ... in loco requiescit et decimam de fraite villa."

Endorsed, in a hand of the thirteenth century,

"Anglia. Anglia."

and again, in writing, apparently, of the fourteenth century,

"Hilbertus de Laceio de nemore
Anglie de Thisuic."

TRANSLATION.

"Be it known unto all Christians as well living as future, that I Hilbert de Laci together with Hadrude my wife do give the mansion[1] of Tuisuicz unto the Holy Trinity of Mont- Rouen ; the land to wit, with water and meadows and woods and all things to the same mansion belonging, for my soul and [the soul] of my lord king William, and the souls of my parents and friends, as also of my wife and of my son Hugh, for that also that he my son above-named resteth in [that] place; and the tithe of Freteval."

The abbey of Mount St. Catharine, near Rouen, to which this grant was made, was founded in A.D. 1030[2]. We have not been able to discover the locality of the wood of "Tuisuicz," or "Thisuic," although it may be inferred, from the endorsement, that it was in England[3]. Freteval, the tithe of which is granted, was probably the small town of that name in France, situated in La Beauce, upon the river Loir. It is worthy of remark, that Robert de Laci, son of Ilbert, in the charter by which he founded the priory of Pontefract, mentions his mother by the name of " Hawisia[4]" whereas in this document she is called Hadrude.

  1. ↑ Mansio is used in the Latin text in a sense corresponding to the old French, manse or mesnil, a farm or homestead.
  2. ↑ Neustria Pia, p. 405.
  3. ↑ The priory of Blythe, in Nottinghamshire, was a dependency of the abbey of Mount St. Catharine, but no name resembling "Thisuic" occurs in the enumeration of its lands given in the Monasticon, vol. iv. p. 626.
  4. ↑ Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. v. p. 120.
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