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The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin - Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven by William J. Ferrar
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A. Archbishop Maugher 147

B. Vale Abbey 148

C. Vale Castle 148

D. Visit of Duke Robert 149

E. The Sarrazins in Guernsey 150

F. The Expedition of Samson d'Anville 150

CHAPTER I.

Of how I, _Nigel de Bessin_, was brought up by the monks of _the Vale_
in _Guernsey Island_, and how on a certain day the abbot gave me choice
of two lives, and which I chose.

This is the chronicle of me, Nigel de Bessin, of good Norman stock,
being a cadet of the great house, whose elder branch is even to-day
settled at St. Sauveur, in the Cotentin. And I write it for two reasons.
First, for the sake of these grandchildren, Geoffrey, Guy, and William,
who gather round me in the hall here at Newton, asking for the story of