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250 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. " Notum sit omnibus Cliristianis tarn viventibns quam futu- ris quod ego Hilbertus de Laceio una cum Hadrude uxore mea do inansionem tuisuicz Sancte Trinitati de monte roto- magensi. terram scilicet cum aqua et pratis et silvis omnibus- que ad ipsam mansionem attinentibus pro anima mea atque domini mei Wilielmi regis et animabus parentum et amico- rum meorum. nee non et uxoris mee. filiique mei Hugonis. pro eo quod et ipse supradictus filius mens ... in loco requiescit et decimam de fraite villa." Endorsed, in a hand of the thirteenth century, " Anglia. Anglia." and again, in writing, apparently, of the fourteenth century, " Hilbertus de Laceio de nemore Anglie de Tliisuic." TRANSLATION. " Be it known unto all Christians as well living as future, that I Hilbert de Laci together with Hadrude my wife do give the mansion of Tuisuicz untO the Holy Trinity of Mont- Rouen ; the land to wit, with water and meadows and woods and all things to the same mansion belonging, for my soul and [the soul] of my lord king William, and the souls of my parents and friends, as also of my wife and of my son Hugh, for that also that he my son above-named resteth in [that] place; and the tithe of Ereteval." The abbey of Mount St. Catharine, near Rouen, to which this grant was made, was founded in A.D. 1030*^. We have not been able to discover the locality of the wood of " Tuis- uicz," or "Thisuic," although it may be inferred, from the endorsement, that it was in England'^. Freteval, the tithe of which is granted, was probably the small town of that name in France, situated in La Beauce, upon the river Loir. It is worthy of remark, that Robert de Laci, son of Ilbert, in the charter by which he founded the priory of Pontefract, men- tions his mother by the name of " Hawisia^" whereas in this document she is called Hadrude. " Mansio is used in the Latin text in a Mount St. Catharine, but no name resem- sense corresponding to the old French, bling " Thisuic" occurs in the enumera- manse or mesnil, a farm or homestead. tion of its lands given in the Monasticon, "■ Neustria Pia, p. 405. vol. iv. p. 626. fl The priory of Hlythe, in Nottingham- * Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. v. p. 120. shire, was a depiMnhincy of the ablioy of I