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formed, that malefactors^ like himself, 

 were sliot with iheir backs towards the 

 sjldiers; lie subr.iitted, at the same 

 time advisins; n priest, -vvho persisted 

 ja rerauining ncjar him, to withdraw, 

 so as not to expose hiinsflf. 



Twenty-one balls took eifect, four 

 in the head, yet he still breathed and 

 muttered in his throat : the tweuty- 

 s'ecuud put ail end to him. This fact 

 is confirmed Iiy all the oificers and sol- 

 diers present at his death. " As soon 

 as we perceive J." said a soldier, vei-y 

 gravely, '• tliat he was enchanted, we 

 loaded his own musket with a silver 

 ball, and this destroyed the spell." It 

 will l)e easily supposed, that the people 

 who always attributed supernatural 

 powers to him, vvcrc confiraied in their 

 belief by this teuaciousness of life, 

 which thev considered miraculous. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, ANTIQUARIAN 



AND 



W 



IN 



FRANCE AND (JEIIMANY. 



BY THE 



Rev. T. F. DIBDIX, F.R.S. S.A. 

 [:3 vols, 8VO. £10. lOs. 



THE AUTHOR'S OBJECTS. 



Since the establishment of peace 

 upon the continent, tlie English have 

 eagerly yielded to their well-known 

 ardour and curiosity, in visiting those 

 counirics, from which, by a long and 

 apparently interminable warfare, they 

 had been previously excluded. In con- 

 sequence, the wealth of Great Britain 

 has been plentifully scattered upon the 

 soils of Italy, France, and Germany; 

 and we have been favoured, in return, 

 with many valuable publications, in 

 which the character, antiquities, or 

 peculiarities of the countries visited, 

 have been described with ability and 

 truth. 



But, while one traveller has confined 

 his attention exclusively to antirjuitie.i ; 

 and another, with the same exclusive 

 attention, to the produce and proper- 

 ties of ««?7; Avhile a third has travelled 

 for purposes of political economy — a 

 fourth as a statistical, and a fifth as a 

 picturesque tourist ; there have been 

 few or none who have favoured us with 

 an account of the TREASURES of the 

 LIPRARIES, or of the general iitersiry 

 ohaiaclcr of those people « ith whom 



they have associatec' ; for the first time*- 

 therefore, the public will here find 

 some attempt to gratify them in thi'* 

 important bianch of information. 



TOMBS AT ROUEN. 



M. Gilbeit, the author of the De' 

 scription. ike. says that botli Rollo and 

 his son V/illiam were buried in the 

 south side of the cathedral, and that 

 tlieir remains were discovered about the 

 year 12(10, ou building tlie present 

 choir: and that it v.as fiollo who built 

 th.: ancient cathedral, '• according to 

 Ordericus Vitalis and other contempo- 

 raneous historians." p. .16. But it 

 must be observed that Vitalis^ (as may 

 be seen in Duchesne's Hist, Ntirmnn 

 Script, p. 459.) says not a word about 

 it: and from the pages of the Neuslrin 

 Pin, (!), 300-1.) it should seem that 

 Rollo was rather partial to the Abbey 

 of St. Ouen. He died 017. On the 

 opposite side chapel is the tomb of his 

 sou William Longevpee, who was taken 

 off treacherously in 944, and his re- 

 mains carried for iuterment to the Ca- 

 thedral. The monumental inscriptions 

 of these are as follows : 



Pommeraye (p. 08.) having given 

 the more ancient ones. 

 Hollo. 

 Hie posit us est 



Rollo ■ ' 1" ' 



Noriaaiiii ast territi Vastatk^dt Ic 

 Restitutse in mi u \ ■' 

 Primus Dux Concitor Pater 

 A Fraacone Arcbiep. Kot«m. 

 Bapii/atus Anno DCCCCXIU. 



Obiit Anuo DCCCCXVII. 

 Ossa ipsius in vetcrl saucluari|9 ,, , , 

 IN una capite, Navis PviiflO[}ii!i.(j^ifi<, 



Condita, ,r, u;.M>i'. ' 



Translate Altari, CollocatS" . '^,|,, 

 Sunt a B. Maurilio Arcluepi'Roibm,' 

 An. MLXlir. 



William. 



Hie positus est 



Guillelmns Dictus Longaa Spata 



Rollonis Filius, 



Dux Norraannioc 



Proditorie Occisus DCCCCXXXXW- 



Ossa Ipsius in veteri Sanctnario, 



Ubi nunc est Caput Navis Primum 



Condita, Translato Altari, Hie 



CoUocato sunt a Maurilio 



Archiepisc. Rotom." ,,,, 



Anno MLXill. 

 But towards the end of t/ie choir, at 

 the back of the high altar, are monu- 

 mental inscriptions yet more interest- 

 ing to Englishmen. ' The brother of 

 Richard I. Pichard I. hiiuself, and 

 John Duke of Bedford. As thjjTf a«> 

 short 1 shall give them ; 



Richard 



