The Breton French fishermen came from Jersey, “La Porte Sainte,” and terminated their funeral voyage at Guernsey, “l’Ile Bienheureuse.” The ashes of the dead were deposited in our _croutes_ and sacred enclosures, within the tombs composed of _five_ horizontal stones, which number indicated the resting places of knightly heroes, or noble Gauls.”--Métivier in the _Monthly Selection_, 1825, pp. 327 and 452. [29] EDITOR’S NOTE.--M. de Gerville denies the truth of this tradition. See _Documents Inédits du Moyen Age, relatifs aux Iles du Cotentin_, p. 16. [30] See _Gentleman’s Magazine Library_, Social Manners and Customs. P. 51, Beating of Bounds at Grimsby. [31] EDITOR’S NOTE.--On the 27th April, 1533. The Court of St. Michel du Valle ordered that the King’s Serjeant should “cry in the Market Place for three Saturdays that the Chevauchée would take place in the following month of May.”--_Fief Le Comte MSS._ copied by Colonel J. H. C. Carey. [32] As being of the same race and language as Wace, Walter Map and Chrestien de Troyes, who were the first to collect and write of the Arthurian legends,--or, as they are generally spoken of by French writers “_Les Epopées de la Table Ronde_,”--it might reasonably be expected that some traces of these old “romans” that must have so influenced our forefathers should linger among us. This “round table” so carefully hollowed out for the pions may be a relic of “La Table Ronde,” of which Wace writes-- “Fist Artus la Roonde Table Dont Bretons dient mainte fable.” He goes on to say that Arthur instituted this Round Table in times of peace, for his feudal retainers, so that none might consider himself superior to his fellow knights and squires, for at such a table all must be equal. [33] Now called the Câtel, and the Church of the said Parish is traditionally built on the Castle formerly inhabited by “Le Grand Sarazin,” and it was there or thereabouts that the Royal Court used to sit. [34] EDITOR’S NOTE.--I will here add a copy of the old orders issued by the Cour de St. Michel in 1663, and copied from those issued in 1439. It is taken word for word from a manuscript lent me by Colonel J. H. Carteret Carey, except that in places I have written in full words which are abbreviated in the original MSS., such as “par” for “P,” “Prevost” for “puost,” “présent” for “pnt,” “que” for “q,” “comme” for “coe,” “parties” for “pties,” “Jour” for “Jor,” etc., etc.:--