windows, disposed, to speak
in heraldic language, 1, 2, and 1; while, in the former, were seven,
placed 1, 2, and 4. Of the four lowest of these, the two outermost gave
light to the aisles. Each window was separated from the rest by a
shallow undivided Norman buttress, built of squared freestone, and
interrupting the herring-bone masonry, which occupies the rest of the
east end, to the height of about five feet from the ground.

NOTES:

[69] St. Hildebert is a name of rare occurrence in hagiology. He was
bishop of Meaux in the seventh century, but was not honored with a place
in the calendar, till about three hundred years after his decease; at
which time his reliques were carried to different parts of France, and
finally interred at Gournay. The church, on this occasion, changed its
patron, an event which commonly happened in those ages, and placed
itself under the protection of the new saint, instead of the
proto-martyr, to whom it had been originally dedicated.--Peter de
Natalibus, in his _Catalogus Sanctorum_, says, that St. Hildebert ended
his life as Archbishop of Tours; and that he died in that city, and was
there buried, "_ibique jacens in miraculis vivit_." He speaks of him
likewise as an elegant scholar, and the author of a work, _de contemptu
hujus vitae_, written partly in verse, and partly in prose.

[70] Of the last of these, which bears date in 1278, a copy, translated
from the Archiepiscopal Archives, is printed in the _Concilia
Normannica_, (II. p. 85,) and is here inserted, not only on account of
the information it affords concerning the church, but as a curious
specimen of similar compositions:--

"GUILLELMUS DE FLAVACURIA INDULGENTIAS ECCLESIAE GORNACENSI
CONCEDIT ANNO CHRISTI MCCLXXVIII.

"Guillelmus permissione divina Rotomagensis Archiepiscopus,
universis praesentes literas inspecturis, salutem in Domino Jesu
Christo. Cum, sicut accepimus, Ecclesia de Gournayo nostrae
Diocesis, in qua Corpus B. Hildeverti requiescit, ita graviter sit
oppressa, quod ad sustentationem pauperum Clericorum ibi
deservientium, necnon et ad reaedificationem dictae Ecclesiae propriae
facultates non suppetant nisi fidelium subventionibus adjuvetur,
maxime cum praedicta Ecclesia amiserit redditus quos in Anglia
solebat percipere annuatim. Nos de omnipotentis Dei misericordia
et B. Mariae semper Virginis genitricis ejus, beatorum Petri et
Pauli, ac beatorum Confessorum Romani et Audoeni, et