_Tancarville, Ralph_, chamberlain to the Conqueror, and founder of the abbey of St. Georges de Bocherville, _Tapestry, Bayeux_, accounts of, published by Montfaucon and Lancelot, referred by them to Matilda, Queen of the Conqueror, figure from, its antiquity denied by Lord Littleton, Hume, and the Abbé de la Rue, when first described, reasons for believing in its antiquity, formerly kept at the cathedral, exhibited during the revolution at Paris, described, _Tassillon_, confined at Jumieges, _Tassilly_, ancient tombs found at, _Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury_ a monk of Bec, _Thomas à Becket_, retired during his disgrace to Lisieux, _Tiles, painted_, in the palace at Caen, supposed to prove the antiquity of heraldic bearings, _Tombeau des énervez_, at Jumieges, _Tombs, ancient_, at Cocherel, in Lisieux cathedral, at Tassilly, _Torigny marble_, _Trinity Holy, abbey of the_, at Caen, when built, used as a fortress as well as a nunnery its income privileges. _Trinity Holy, church of the abbey of the_, at Caen, now a work-house, described, its spires destroyed by Charles, King of Navarre. _Turnebus_, Adrian, native of Andelys. _Turold_, founder of Bourg-Theroude, represented on the Bayeux tapestry. U. _University of Caen_, founded by Henry VIth, abolished and restored by Charles VIIth, esteemed the third in France. V. _Vernon_, its situation, formerly the seat of a royal palace, church. _Vieux_, a Roman station, etymology of the name. _Vines_, formerly cultivated at Jumieges, also at Caen and Lisieux. W. _Wace_, a resident at Caen. _Whales_, formerly caught near Jumieges. _William the Conqueror_, his statue at Caen, supposed figure of him on a capital in the church of the abbey of the Trinity, buried in the abbey-church of St. Stephen, his epitaph, his death and burial, and the disturbance of his remains, his palace at Caen, fresco-paintings of him and his family, born at Falaise, receives the homage of the English, as successor to Edward, at Bayeux. _William of Jumieges_, his account of the attachment of the Empress Maud to Bec.