[30] Description de la Haute Normandie, I. p. 94.
[31] P. 196, 203, 204.
[32] Description de la Haute Normandie, I. p. 90.—Some other writers date the foundation A.D. 666.
[33] Gough's Alien Priories, I. p. 9.
[34] This important part of its treasures, we may hope, from the following passage in Noel, has been in a measure preserved. "On m'a assuré que cette dernière partie des richesses littéraires de notre pays étoit heureusement conserveé: puisse aujourd'hui ce dépot, honorant les mains qui le possédent, parvenir intégre jusqu'aux tems propères où le génie de l'histoire pourra utiliser sa possession."—Essais sur la Seine Inférieure, II. p. 21.
[35] I do not know if it be wholly destroyed; for the author of the Description of Upper Normandy and Goube both speak of the existence of a square tower within the precincts of the abbey, part of the old palace, and known by the name of the Tower of Babel.
[36] Noel, Essais sur la Seine Inférieure, II. p. 11.
[37] Vol. I. p. 389.
[38] This name, in Latin, is Monasterium Villare; in old French records it is called Monstier Vieil.
[39] Origines de Caen, 2nd edit. p. 300.