1809.] 
The Haro might have been. therefore 
absurd. He therefore aie to the 
church, as our people did to the pepe, 
against the king. Yranstutor.] The 
bishops interrogated the neighbours, and 
upon their depositions, gave to Ascelin 
sixty sous for his land. We may add to 
this, says M. Brequigny, that the cry of 
Haro, appears to have been in these 
aves, a general appeal for assistance, 
without any determinate sense, Thus 
in the inquest taken in the thirteenth 
century, of the miracles of S. Louis, a 
woman, perceiving a child drowning, cries 
out Harou, Harou, come here, help me 
to draw out the clild. This exclamation 
is also found in some places of the Ro- 
man de la Rose, with which Row could 
have no concern. [Here M. Brequigny 
mies out his case. Q. if both that and 
the lish Arrah, the Normans bemg of 
northern origin, do not come from 
thence? Translator. | 
Some subsequent facts given by M. 
Brequigny, are common; [ therefore pass 
on to some accounts of Willian Rufus, 
which are more favourable to his cha- 
racter, than general opinion. 
During the siege of Mount S. Michael, 
the king and the duke* amused them- 
selves with frequent challenges and justs. 
In one of these the king fell from his 
herse, but without quitting the saddle, 
which had gone off with him, the poitral 
and girths being broken by the violence 
of the blow, which had been struck. He 
defended himself sword in. ha “nd, with 
the saddle grasped fast between his | legs, 
until succour arrived, and without their 
being able to reproach him, with having 
evacuated the saddle, ‘fait vider les 
arcons,” a fact which proves his courage, 
and the nice concern he took in the ho- 
nour of chivalry. When he arrived at 
Barfleur, he marched to Mans, and de- 
livered the castle. He gave to the inha- 
bitants, who had defended it, all the 
houses of the town. Mayne was sub- 
dued: and the Earl Helias was mace 
prisoner: but the king set him at liberty, 
telling him, to beware being taken again. 
© Cas se jon vous prens autrefais, 
Jamais de ma prison n’estrees.” 
The king returned to England, and, 
after reigning thirteen years, was killed 
by an arrow, shot by one of the hunters. 
The chronicle, which copies the poein, 
says, that they accused Walter Tirel, 
[whom the M.S. calls Titam: the 
* His brother Robert. 
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French to this day not selina or pro- 
nouncing English surnames accurately. | 
But Tire! protested many times with an 
oath, that he had not seen the king, and’ 
that he had not even gone, during the 
whole day, 
prince was killed. Whis is further at- 
tested by Suger,( Rec. Hist. Franc. xii, 12) 
who had it from ‘Tirel’s own mouth, 
The poet contents himself with saying, 
that the king was struck, the direction 
of the arrow having been diverted, either 
because the arrow glanced against a 
tree, or because Tirel, in shooting it, was 
obstructed by his side, and altered the 
direction. Tirel, according to the poet, 
fled into France. Orderic Vitalis adds, 
that he married there, and a long time 
afterwards went to Jerusalem, where he 
died. 
{This death of William Rufus, except 
that he died by violent means, 1s exceed- 
ingly dubious. He was detested, The 
Saxon Chronicle only says, that he was 
killed by one of his own retinue with an 
arrow. Cadmer, who lived in the reign, 
says, (p. 54) that be was struck in the 
heart by an arrow, but whether, as some 
say, it was shot, cr as more affirm, he 
stumbled and fell upon it, Ne thinks it 
not worth while to enquire. Neither the 
Saxon Chronicle or Cadmer mention 
Tyrrel’s name: the stumbling upon the 
arrow, sounds like a lie artfully raised ; 
and Tyrrel, from some pique, was per- 
haps made the scape-goat for the rest : 
for Cadmer adds, that the moment he was 
struck, he was deserted feed by 
every body; a circumstance, w hich im- 
plies guilt. Possibly they shot at him 
from behind a tree for disguise, which 
occasioned the story of the arrow glan- 
cing, asa convenient excuse. Tyrrel’s 
name was’ picked up afterwards, by re- 
- port perhaps. Lranstator.] | 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Am informed that, in consequence of 
an alteration (lately made) in the ‘pro- 
cess of drying White Lead, the health of 
the labourers, im an extensive manufac | 
tory in the neighbourhood of London, 
has been. very materially benenedetts 
fatal constipation of the soxels, so com- 
mon amongst them, having much de- 
creased, which is attributed in a great 
measure, if not entirely, to this altera- 
tion. The different mode of drying the 
Lead adopted is Gf I understand. the 
matter ones that instead af laying it 
en chalk it is now peared into earthen- 
Wa are 
into the forest, where the- 
