“Saint Michel ou Mont Saint Michel, en Latin Mons Sancti Michaelis in periculo Maris. Bourg de France en Normandie, avec une Abbaie celebre et un chateau. Sa situation est assez particuliere, sur un rocher qui s’etend au milieu d’une grand greve, que la mer couvre de son reflux. On dit qu’ Augustin, evêque d’Avranches, qui vivait au commencement du huitieme siecle, y suit des chanoines apres une apparition de l’Archange Seint Michel. “Ce mont s’appelloit le Mont de Tombe à cause de sa figure. On pretend qu’une foret occupoit autrefois sont le terrain depuis le mont jusques aux Paroisses de Tanis et d’Ardevon; que la mer a detruit cette foret, et qu’elle en a pris la place; et c’est de la, dit on, que le Mont Saint Michel est surnomme, ‘Au peril de la mer,’ Mons in periculo Maris.” The first authentic document relative to St. Michael’s Mount is the charter of Saint Edward the Confessor, the original of which remained among the archives of Mount St. Michael. In the recent edition of Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. vii. p. 988: Priory of St. Michael’s Mount, in Cornwall.――A priory of Benedictine monks was placed here by King Edward the Confessor. Before A.D. 1085, however, it was annexed by Robert Earl of Moreton and Cornwall, to the Abbey of St. Michael in Periculo Maris, in Normandy. The following entry relating to the property of St. Michael’s Priory, in Cornwall, occurs in the Domesday Survey: “Terra Sancti Michaelis.――Ecclesia S. Michaelis tenet Treiwal, Brismar tenebat tempore regis Edwardi. Ibi sunt ii hidæ quæ numquam geldaverunt. Terra est viii car. Ibi est i. car. cum uno villano, et ii. bord. et x. acr. pasturæ. Val. xx. solid. De hiis ii. hid. abstulit Comes Moriton i. hidam. Val. xx. sol.” In Hampshire, Domesday, tom. i. fol. 43, there is another entry concerning St. Michael’s Priory: In Basingstoches Hund.――Ecclesia S. Michaelis de Monte tenet de lege unam ecclesiam cum i. hida et decima M. de Basingestoches. Ibi est presbyter et ii. villani et iiii. bord. cum i. car. et molin. de xx. sol. et ii. acr. prati. Tot. val. iiii. lib. et v. sol. Oliver, in his Historic Collections relating to the monasteries of Devon, p. 147, gives the following list of Priors of St. Michael’s Mount:―― Ralph de Carteret, admitted Dec. 21, 1260. Richard Perer, April 11, 1275. Geoffrey de Gernon, July 8, 1283. Peter de Cara Villa, Sept. 12, 1316. John Hardy, Oct. 3, 1349. John de Volant, April 24, 1362. Richard Auncell, Dec. 7, 1385. William Lambert, Oct. 1, 1410. As the alien priories were suppressed by Henry V. who began his reign in 1413, William Lambert was probably the last Prior.