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belonged to the Canons, more from devotion to Stephen than
ex rectitudine. For in fact the land was in the parish of another
saint cuius nomen a memoria excidit licet eum lingua romana
sepe Baer uocari ab incolis audierim. The priest of St Paer
often complained to Ailsi, and after one such dispute said Jungo
te et sanctum Paer simul et donet deus ut fortior uincat. That
night Stephen came to Ailsi and said ‘Ego et scs Paer boni
socii, give him his tithes.’ Ailsi did so. Later, in my time, the
Canons were again challenged for these tithes, and backed
by the Earl of Cornwall, Reginald, quem ego satis uidi et ei
familiaris fui et eius cognatus extiti. My father Jordanus was
sent for, and related the vision. The Earl decided for St Paer 24 b
7. It would be long to tell all Ailsi’s visions but there is one most
remarkable one de quodam lazaro...quem fouebat et nutriebat
pro cuius obsequii merito et humilitate multa bona collata sunt
uiro sancto predicto. But as a great part of it has slipped my
memory I pass it over donee eius noticiam a fratre meo qui
adhuc in humanis degit comparauero.
Then follow two lines, erased, of the beginning of the next section
with slight difference. Predictus uir dei ailsi ita familiaris erat
b. Stephano quia cum eo frequentissime. After which a column
and a half is left blank.
8. (f. 25, col. 2.) Item de filiis Ailsi. Predictus itaque uir dei
Ailsi etc. .......... 25
He had, besides daughters, four sons as devoted to Stephen as
himself. I will tell their visions before I narrate his visions of
the next world.
9. Bernard and Nicholas were the two eldest: much favoured by
Henry I. Bernard was once saying mass for the king ‘in
expeditione Wallie’ in a wattled chapel. The camp and chapel
caught fire. He would not leave it till he had finished the mass,
and neither he nor the altar furniture or the roof over him were
touched. He was greatly thought of.
10. When Bernard was celebrating a spider fell into the chalice.
Trusting St Stephen, he drank it. One night his little toe
itched: he went to the fire and made one of his servants
scratch it till the blood came. The spider came out alive.
Nicholas became a Canon of Merton (Meretona).
The two brothers gave to St Stephen (Launceston) among other
things a vexillum coloris indici auro brusdatum in quo agnus in
medio auro intextus est et inferius lapidatio S. Stephani et ad
iv cornua IV evangelistarum ymagines sunt depicte which is
still in the church and much reverenced. They also gave
tapetium crucem et unam capsellam eburneam argenteis claui-
culis et bullis ornatam, in qua sunt reliquie, que capsellaquondam
fuit scriptorium eorum. Unde et in ea est adhuc cornu atra-
mentarium eorum magnum argenteum.
11. The third son was Jordanus de Trecarl, an excellent man, a just
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belonged to the Canons, more from devotion to Stephen than
ex rectitudine. For in fact the land was in the parish of another
saint cuius nomen a memoria excidit licet eum lingua romana
sepe Baer uocari ab incolis audierim. The priest of St Paer
often complained to Ailsi, and after one such dispute said Jungo
te et sanctum Paer simul et donet deus ut fortior uincat. That
night Stephen came to Ailsi and said ‘Ego et scs Paer boni
socii, give him his tithes.’ Ailsi did so. Later, in my time, the
Canons were again challenged for these tithes, and backed
by the Earl of Cornwall, Reginald, quem ego satis uidi et ei
familiaris fui et eius cognatus extiti. My father Jordanus was
sent for, and related the vision. The Earl decided for St Paer 24 b
7. It would be long to tell all Ailsi’s visions but there is one most
remarkable one de quodam lazaro...quem fouebat et nutriebat
pro cuius obsequii merito et humilitate multa bona collata sunt
uiro sancto predicto. But as a great part of it has slipped my
memory I pass it over donee eius noticiam a fratre meo qui
adhuc in humanis degit comparauero.
Then follow two lines, erased, of the beginning of the next section
with slight difference. Predictus uir dei ailsi ita familiaris erat
b. Stephano quia cum eo frequentissime. After which a column
and a half is left blank.
8. (f. 25, col. 2.) Item de filiis Ailsi. Predictus itaque uir dei
Ailsi etc. .......... 25
He had, besides daughters, four sons as devoted to Stephen as
himself. I will tell their visions before I narrate his visions of
the next world.
9. Bernard and Nicholas were the two eldest: much favoured by
Henry I. Bernard was once saying mass for the king ‘in
expeditione Wallie’ in a wattled chapel. The camp and chapel
caught fire. He would not leave it till he had finished the mass,
and neither he nor the altar furniture or the roof over him were
touched. He was greatly thought of.
10. When Bernard was celebrating a spider fell into the chalice.
Trusting St Stephen, he drank it. One night his little toe
itched: he went to the fire and made one of his servants
scratch it till the blood came. The spider came out alive.
Nicholas became a Canon of Merton (Meretona).
The two brothers gave to St Stephen (Launceston) among other
things a vexillum coloris indici auro brusdatum in quo agnus in
medio auro intextus est et inferius lapidatio S. Stephani et ad
iv cornua IV evangelistarum ymagines sunt depicte which is
still in the church and much reverenced. They also gave
tapetium crucem et unam capsellam eburneam argenteis claui-
culis et bullis ornatam, in qua sunt reliquie, que capsellaquondam
fuit scriptorium eorum. Unde et in ea est adhuc cornu atra-
mentarium eorum magnum argenteum.
11. The third son was Jordanus de Trecarl, an excellent man, a just