Radulfus igitur
de Guader a parte Aquilonali primus ignem injecit, et effrenis flamma
per urbem statim volavit, et omnia (tempos enim autumni siccum erat)
corripuit. Tunc combusta est basilica sancti Salvatoris, quam
Sanctimoniales incolebant, et celebris aula gloriosae virginis et matris
Mariae, cui Praesul et Clerus serviebant, ubi Pontificalem Curiam
parochiani frequentabant. Rex, et cuncti Optimales sui Episcopo pro
Ecclesiarum combustione vadimonium suppliciter dederunt, et uberes
impensas de opibus suis ad restaurationem earum palam spoponderunt."]
[Footnote 37: _Duchesne, Scriptores Normanni_, p. 309.]
[Footnote 38: _Gallia Christiana_, XI. p. 606.]
[Footnote 39: From the manner in, which Ducarel speaks of these statues,
(_Anglo-Norman Antiquities_, p. 85.) he leaves it to be understood, that
they were in existence in his time; but it is far from certain that this
was the case; for the whole of his account of them is no more than a
translation from the following passage in Le Brasseur's _Histoire du
Comte d'Evreux_, p. 11.--"Le Diocese d'Evreux a ete si favorise des
graces de Dieu, qu'on ne voit presqu'aucun temps ou l'Heresie y ait
penetre, meme lorsque les Protestans inondoient et corrompoient toute la
France, et particulierement la Normandie.
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