sent in a Dutch vessel with armed men conce on board. The mate of the vessel sent wor shore that the captain had died, and they a permission to bury the body in a burying gro upon the island, near a chapel, saying, tha the islanders would grant this request, they w in return reward them with a good presen the best of the commodities that they had board their ship.

"The Sark men agreed to this. You s was not very often that they had an opportu to procure any foreign commodities in 1 island. So they accepted the offer, only stipulated that the men who should com shore with the body should not bring with t any arms at all, not even the smallest dagge

"The shipmen agreed to this, and they ered a great coffin box into a boat and came it to the shore. When they got to the s they lifted out the box and proceeded to c it up toward the chapel. It seemed to be heavy, but the Sark men were not much prised at this, for the coffin inside might leaden one. So they left the men who cam n rose upon them suddenly from aces, and seized them; and at the men who had gone on shore had ineral procession, and when they hapel they went in and shut the

FLOREN Grimkie a

Estening t about the

opened the box. The box, instead offin in it was full of swords and nen armed themselves with these ns, and then opened the doors and on the people. The people fled to d began to call upon the men who n the boat to come back and help was too late. They had all been s, and a new boat load of armed ship were coming on shore. In

about Nor

chief part

the place

islands. 1 he had rea

queror-a and memo

events of

queen.

Matild:

sland was captured."

daughter

curious story," said John.

lived in I

Lied Grimkie.

y, if we do go that way."

untries we shall pass through in

stories about these islands, and

"There are a great

and had

those da

me more of the stories," said John.

MORE STORIES.

FLORENCE remained sometime longer wi Grimkie and John in the great drawing-room listening to the stories which Grimkie told h about the Channel Islands, and particular about Normandy, the country through which th chief part of their journey lay, on the way the place where they would embark for th islands. Most of the stories which Grimkie tol he had read in the history of William the Co queror-all that country being full of legen and memorials of every kind, connected with th events of his life, and of that of Matilda b queen.

Matilda was William's cousin. She w daughter of the Count of Flanders, and s lived in Brussels. She was a very beautiful gi and had been so well educated that she had a quired great skill in all the accomplishmen usually taught to young ladies of high rank, those days. She heard that Duke William, h cousin, was in love with her, and intended

- quite a young man, and had not ed the exploits and made the conwhich he afterward became so re

Iliam had heard what his cousin had he went to Brussels, obtained an inMatilda, charged her with the imf which she had been guilty, and

rs.

wed a violent quarrel, and after the conciliation, the end of which was, a, who when she came to think of ked the spirit which William had ented to marry him.

les of the worthy couple did not end er. They were married, but as soon s of the marriage reached the pope, I to William that such a union was prohibited degrees of relationship, Matilda must separate. William Dut away his wife. Then the pope ated him. This led to a long and

penances, tant thing found two We ou to suppos to be esta benefits t honestly

besides tl

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which th

commun

the infl

and cen Willi in the

lawful, provided they would perform cer penances, and also, which was the most im tant thing, give a large sum of money each found two abbeys in Normandy.

We ought in charity, and perhaps in jus to suppose that the pope, in desiring these abl to be established, had chiefly in view the spiri benefits to the people of the country which honestly supposed would result from them. besides this, he had a political interest in mu plying such establishments, as every new that was built and endowed increased the b which the ecclesiastical power exercised over community, and of course widened and exten the influence of the pope himself, as the h and centre of that power.

William and Matilda both built their abl in the town of Caen, -one at one end of town, and the other at the other. Matil was an abbey for women, and William's, one Each consisted of a magnificent chu for divine service, and for other religious c monies, and also of ranges of other buildi for the occupancy of the monks and nuns.