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each of these places, as he did here and at Mont St. Michel, and 

 at the monastery of St. Michael del Bosco at Bologna, hut I 

 believe most of them have some such legend. 



Actuated possibly by the strong resemblance between the 

 two hills, King Edward the Confessor granted our Cornish 

 mount to the abbey of the same name in Normandy, where the 

 original grant is said to be still preserved. " In the name of the 

 blessed and indivisible Trinity, I Edward, by the grace of God 

 King of the English, being desirous to give the price of 

 redeeming the soul of myself, and of my relatives, have, with the 

 consent and witness of good men, delivered to St. Michael the 

 Archangel, for the use of the brethren who serve God in that 

 place, St. Michael by the sea, with all its appendages, to wit, 

 towns, castles, fields, and other appurtenances. I have added 

 also .... (other lands specified). If any shall attempt to impeach 

 these gifts let him be anathema and incur the eternal wrath of 

 God," It is almost unnecessary to mention that the Norman 

 abbey was Benedictine, founded by St. Aubert, bishop of 

 Avranches, in the 8th century, in obedience to a mandate from 

 St. Michael himseK, who appeared to him as he slept. The 

 Norman abbey held many churches in England : — Woodbury in 

 Devon, Cholsey in Berkshire, and others. AH that seems to have 

 been intended by Edward's grant to the Norman abbey was that 

 the Cornish establishment should be a cell of the Norman. 

 Gradually, however, as Normandy and England came to be 

 separated, the Cornish Mount became the home of an independent 

 monastery to which grants were made direct. 



At the time of the Domesday survey the greatest land-owner 

 in Cornwall was the Conqueror's half-brother, Eobert, Earl of 

 Mortain and first. Earl of Cornwall, who held no less than 248 

 manors in this county alone, and 545 in 19 others. Amongst his 

 lands in this county were Moireis {Jiodie Moresk or St. Clement's 

 by Truro), Alwaretone {lioMe Alverton or Madron), Tedington 

 {Tiodie Tehidy or lUogan), and Luduham (Ludgvan-Lees or 

 Ludgvan). 



Erom Domesday also we learn that the Church of St. Michael 

 held TreiwaU (the present manor of St. Michael's Mount). 

 " There are two hides which have never paid geld. There is land 

 for eight ploughs. There is one plough with one villein, and two 



