[49] See Britten's Architectural Antiquities, III. t. 2.
[50] Goube, Histoire de Normandie, III. 249.
[51] Histoire de la Haute Normandie, II. p. 319.
[52] Mr. Gough, (See Archæologia, X. p. 187.) whose attention had been much directed to this subject, seems to have known only four fonts made of lead, in the kingdom;--at Brookland in Kent, Dorchester in Oxfordshire, Wareham in Dorsetshire, and Walmsford in Northamptonshire; but there are in all probability many more. We have at least four in Norfolk. He says, "they are supposed to be of high antiquity; and that at Brookland may have relation to the time of Birinus himself. To what circumstance the others are to be referred, or from what other church brought, does not appear."--The leaden fonts which I have seen, have all been raised upon a basis of brick or stone, like this at Bourg-Achard, and are all of nearly the same pattern.
[53] See Concilia Normannica, II. pp. 56, 117, 403, 491, 508, &c.
LETTER XX.
MOULINEAUX--CASTLE OF ROBERT THE DEVIL--BOURG-THEROUDE--ABBEY OF BEC--BRIONNE.
(Brionne, July, 1818.)