224 ST. Michael's mount. 



bordars, and ten acres of pasture. Worth twenty shillings. Of 

 these two hides, the Earl of Mortain has taken away one hide. 

 Worth twenty shillings." The land so taken away by the Earl 

 was (we learn fi'om the same record) held under the earl by 

 Blohiu. Influenced (as he tells us in his deed of grant) by the 

 fire of divine love, Earl Mortain notified to all sons of Holy 

 Mother Church that, whereas in battle he carried the banner of 

 St. Michael, and moreover desired to secure salvation for the souls 

 of himself, and of his wife, as well as the salvation, prosperity, 

 and welfare of the most glorious King William, and to obtain 

 the reward of eternal life, he gave and granted St. Michael's 

 Mount in Cornwall to God and the Monks of the Church of St. 

 Michael "de Periculo Maris," (sic) with half a hide of land, quit 

 and fi-ee from all customs suits and actions, as he himself formerly 

 held it ; and, by permission of his Lord the King, he ordained 

 that the said monks might hold a market there every Thursday.* 

 Lastly, having ascertained as a fact that through the merits of 

 St. Michael and the prayers of the monks, a son had been given 

 him by his wife, he had increased the gift to the said Leader of 

 the Heavenly hosts by the grant of three acres of land in 

 Ameneth, to wit, Trevelaboth, Lismanoch,f Trequaners and 

 Carmailoc, his most pious lord King William consenting, as also 

 did his Queen Matilda and their noble children Count Robert, 

 William Eufus, and Henry, still a lad, to be quit and free of all 

 pleas, suits and forfeitures, so that the monks should be 

 responsible to E,oyal justice for nothing, except only for homicide. 

 The grant is sealed by King William, his Queen and children, as 

 also by the Earl, and confirmed by Livric, Bishop of Exeter. 

 Dugdale's and Oliver's copies (from which I have translated this) 

 give the date as 1085,| a date which is obviously wrong, as 



* Marazion or Marghasiowe is said by some to mean '■ Thursday's Market." 

 The etymol gy seems fanciful, and it is worth noticing that the markets were not 

 held at Marghasiowe at all until transferred thither from Marghasbigan, wherever 

 that may have been. For interesting discussions of the etymology of the name, 

 see Macmillan's Magazine for 1867, and the Journal of this society for the same 

 year. 



t Lismanoch=:Monk's Enclosure. Query, if now represented by the fields in 

 St. Hilary parish known as " Prior's fields." 



X The words are " Firmata atque roborata est hsec carta, anno millesimo 

 octuagesimo quinto ab incarnatione Domini, indictione decima quartS., concurrente 

 tertia, lun& octava." The indiction, it will be noted, does not agree with the 

 year. 



