Note 814 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051. (continued 2)
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Ib. 9362;
“A Baieues fu lors otréiée,
Quant l’iglise fu dediée,
De la terre Grimout partie
A Madame Sainte Marie,
Partie fu ki ke l’en die
Mise à chescun en l’abéie.”
See Pluquet and Taylor’s notes. The “abéie” must mean the cathedral church, but it was a great sacrifice to the rhyme for one of its canons to speak of it as an abbey. The grant of Plessis and other possessions “Grimoldi perfidi” to Odo and his successors in the see of Bayeux will be found in Gallia Christiana, xi. 64.