Author: Herbert Fry
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... has a very handsome church dating from the 14th century, with two tall spires, 250ft., and the celebrated image of N. D. du Pilier. There are also a museum of antiquities, and some Roman remains. The line from St. L6 is continued to Coutances, seep. 89. From Lison it is 13 miles to Carentan (Stat.), a small port, not without interest in English history. When Henry I. came to Normandy, in 1105, to put down various disturbances, he "landed at a port called Barbaflot, and on Easier Eve found quarters in the village of Carentan, on the fords of the Vire, where he rested for awhile. Serlo, Bishop of Se'es, met the king at Carentan, and preached to him a long sermon chiefly upon the distresses produced throughout the country because of Robert Curthose's inefficiency as a ruler. "Alas," said Serlo, "he dissipates in trivial follies the wealth of his noble duchy, while he often fasts till nones (3 p.m.), for want of bread. The greatest part of his time he lies in bed and cannot go to church because he has neither trowsers, stock Now Borfleur. ings, nor shoes. The buffoons and harlots by whom he is constantly surrounded carry off his clothes during the night, while he is drunk and snoring, and boast with derision that they have robbed the duke." Serlo then attacked the fashion of wearing long hair, with such ability; that at the end of his sermon he found he had thoroughly convinced his hearers. He without more ado took a pair of scissors out of his scrip and cropped the king's hair with his own hands, and afterwards that of the nobles; all the royal household, and the rest of the congregation contended with each other who should be cropped first, and in anticipation of an order from the king severed the locks which had...
