130.

We are told by Ingulf, that Ivo de Taillebois plundered the monastery of Croylaud of a great part of its land, and no redress could be obtained.] [Footnote 9: NOTE I, p.195.The obliging of all the inhabitants to put out their fires and lights it certain hours, upon the sounding of a bell, called the Courfeu, is represented by Polydore Virgil, lib.

ix., as a mark of the servitude of the English.

But this was a law of police, which William had previously established in Normandy.

See Du Moulin, Hist de Normandie, p.160.The same law had place in Scotland.