Thus did the pageant proceed in all its grotesque glory, and, while--
"These labor'd nothings in so strange a style Amazed the unlearned, and made the learned smile,"
the children shouted aloud for their favorite Grimaldi; the priests, accompanied with bells, trumpets, and organs, thundered out the mass; the pious were loud in their exclamations of rapture at the devotion of the Virgin; and the whole church was filled with "un non so che di rauco ed indistinto".--But I have told you enough of this foolish story, of which it were well if the folly had been the worst. The sequel was in the same taste and style, and ended with the euthanasia of all similar representations, a hearty dinner.
[4] _Description de la Haute Normandie_, I. p. 130.
[6] _Essals sur le Département de la Seine Inférieure_, I. p. 119.
[8] Another author, mentioned by the Abbé Fontenu, in the _Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions_, X. p. 413, carries the antiquity of the place still eight centuries higher, representing it as the _Portus Ictius_, whence Julius Cæsar sailed for Britain.
[9] _Description de la Haute Normandie_, I. p. 125.
[11] The deed itself under which this exchange was made is also preserved in _Duchesne's Scriptores Normanni_, and in the _Gallia Christiana_, XI. _Instr_. p. 27, where it is entitled "_Celebris commutatio facta inter Richardum I, regem Angliæ et Walterium Archiepisc. Rotomagensem_." It is worth remarking, in illustration of the feudal rights and customs, how much importance is attached in this instrument to the mills and the seignorage for grinding: the king expressly stipulates that every body "tam milites quàm clerici, et omnes homines, tam de feodis militum quàm de prebendis, sequentur molendina de _Andeli_, sicut consueverunt et debent, et moltura erit nostra. Archiepiscopus autem et homines sui de _Fraxinis_ (a manor specially reserved,) molent ubi idem Archiepiscopus volet, et si voluerit molere apud _Andeli_, dabunt molturas suas, sicut alii ibidem molentes. In escambium autem ... concessimus ... omnia molendina quæ nos habuimus Rotomagi, quando hæc permutatio facta fuit, integrè cum omni sequelâ et molturâ suâ, sine aliquo retinemento eorum quæ ad molendinam pertinent vel ad molturam, et cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus quas solent et debent habere. Nec alicui alii licebit molendinum facere ibidem ad detrimentum prædictorum molendinorum; et debet Archiepiscopus solvere eleemosinas antiquitùs statutas de iisdem molendinis."