Et ci ne sont que deux ici[[34]]."
Other inscriptions of the same nature are said to have existed in England. Goube[[35]] supposes that this one is the record of an incestuous connection; but we may doubt whether a less sinful solution may not be given to the enigma.
Footnotes:
[28] Andelys is also called in old deeds Andeleium and Andeliacum.
[29] "Seculo septimo, cum pauca essent in regione Anglorum monasteria, hunc morem in illâ gente fuisse, ut multi ex Britanniâ, monastiae conversationis gratiâ, Francorum monasteria adirent, sed et filias suas eisdem erudiendas ac sponso coelesti copulandas mitterent, maximè in Brigensi seu S. Farae monasterio, et in Calensi et in Andilegum monasterio."--Bede, Hist. lib. III. cap. 8.
[30] Cotman's Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, plate 15.--In a future portion of his work, Mr. Cotman designs devoting a second plate exclusively to the oriel in the east front of this building.
[31] Monstrelet, Johnes' Translation, II. p. 242.
[32] The letter of this stipulation appears to have been attended to much more than its spirit for at the top of the monument were five figures:--Our Savior seated in the centre, as if in the act of pronouncing sentence; on either side of him, an angel; and below, Charles de Valois and Enguerrand de Marigni; the former on the right of Christ, crowned with the ducal coronet; the other, on the opposite side, in the guise and posture of a suppliant, imploring the divine vengeance for his unjust fate.--Histoire de la Haute Normandie, II. p. 338.
[33] Montfaucon, Monumens de la Monarchie Française, II. p. 220.