"De ceste _court_ grace est grand _chanceliere_, Vertus ont lieu de _présidens_ prudens: Vérité est première _conseillere_, Et pureté _huyssiére_ là-dedans: La _greffiére_ est virginité féconde, Et la _concierge_ humilité profonde. Pythié _procure_ a vuider les discords, Comme _advocat_, amour ayde aux accords. De _geolier_ vacque le seul office: Aussy on voyt par _officiers_ concors, La noble _court_ rendante à tous justice." In the same style and strain is a ballad, which, thanks to the care of De Bourgueville, the author of the _Antiquities of Caen_, hath been preserved for the edification of posterity. It enumerates all the members of the court _seriatim_, and compares their lordships and worships, one after another, to the heroes and demi-gods of ancient story. The parliament in its turn has given way to the _Court of Assizes_; and, where the states once deliberated, the electors of the department now come together for the purpose of naming the deputies who represent them in the great council of the nation;--such are the vicissitudes of all human institutions. When the Jews were expelled from Normandy, in 1181, the _Close_, or Jewry, in which they dwelled, escheated to the king. The sons of Japhet spoiled the sons of Shem with pious alacrity. The debtor burnt his bond; the bailie seized the store of bezants; the synagogue was razed to the ground. In this _Close_ the palace was afterwards built. The wise custom of Normandy was mooted on the spot where the law of Moses had once been taught; and, by a strange, perhaps an ominous, fatality, the judge held the scales of justice, where whilome the usurer had poised his balance.