This he did, night after night, till the lady suspected his crime and took him to trial, where he was condemned. Then, on the spot where her true husband was killed, she had him buried, and over his remains raised a stone, in loco conspicuo, quem nunc Hogam Hambeyam alias Hagam Byam vocitant. Hoga est pyramis obtusa e terrâ cujus modi Galli vocant mont joyes. The mound is now called the Hougue Bie. It is described, and the legend is alluded to in a previous chapter. (See page 120). NOTE.

The statement found in more places than one, to the effect that there is cotemporary evidence to the outline of the Channel Island coast having been different to what it is at present has already been alluded to. It has yet to be produced; and, as far as it is safe to venture on a negative statement, it is nonexistent.

What, however, is really curious, is the history of the physical condition of the islands in the following letter from Adam de Marisco, a Minorite, to Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln, concerning a volcano.

DOMINO LINCOLNIE FRATER.

Littera quam nostri gratia mihi misistis solatium plurimum præstitit, licet sicut scripsistis quædam contineret inconsolabili digna fletu. * * Verum fateor quod cum præsentia conficerem quibus verbis conceptum spiritum vasti horroris exprimerem, penitus ignoravi. Quid sibi velit inauditum retro sæculis portentum his diebus famæ violentia vulgatum, quis conjectorum pensare valebit? videlicet quod apud insulam de Gerneshey, [quod] utrique regnorum Franciæ et Angliæ quasi conterminam, flammarum globi de gurgite marino frequentius in terrarum eminentias exilire cernunter, etiam moles saxeas cum cæteris materiis irrepressibili conflagratione devorantes, et abactis habitatoribus, post finitas incinerationes, loco incendii armatorum cuneos congressibus bellicis atrocius confligentes et cessante conflictu ad ignotos secessus sese conferentes. Numquid igitur aliud agendum esse putabimus, nisi ut dum insaniunt reprobi electi lugeant, orantes hæc et alia sæculo insueta per superni clementem Domini sæculorum providentiam monstrata in bonum convertantur. Non hujus tam miranda novitatis me auctorem exhibeo sed recito quod me audiente retulit exceptione magna majus testimonium, &c.— Monumenta Franciscana, p. 151.

END OF PART THE THIRD.

PART IV.

ECONOMICS.