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The Glamour de Haro.
[Fortnightly Reyiew.I

[Fortnightly Review.
An old custom in Jersey, descended
from Norman times, is interesting The
"Clameur de Haro," or the appeal to
Rollo, is attributed to Duke Rollo of
Normandy, who gave to his people per-
sonal APPEAL to himself and his success
sors in certain cases of wrong. To this
day in the islands, if there be a question
of encroachment on the right of property
such as the wrongful building of a wall
or the removalef boundary, the custom
is that the injured person may make his
appeal to RoIIo on the spot, by falling on
his knees in the presense of witnesses and
exclaiming in the prescribed words,
"Hao, Haro, Paide, mon Prince, on
me fait tortw-Haro being the abbrevia-
tion of the words, "Ah, Rollop'
On this invocation, the workmen en-
ployed in the work are bound to cease,
and can not proceed with it until the
Royal Court has investigated the matter
and pronounced Judgment. If the per-
son thus appealing is found on inquiry
to be In the wrong, he is fined by the
Court for having, without just grounds,
called in the name of Rollo. A notable
case of this Glamour de Haro occurred
ia Normandy at the funeral of Will
liam the Conqueror, and accounts for
the scene SO graphically told by Mr..
Freeman, though he does not connect
the incident with the peculiar custom or
right of appeal. In order to provide a
site for the great Abbey of St. Stephen
at Caen, the Conqueror had taken the
property of several persons, one of whom
complained that he had not been COM
pensated for his interest. ...
The son of this person, Ascelin, OBJ
serving that the grave Of William was
dug on the very spot where his fathers
house had been situated, went boldly
into the assembly collected at the grave
for the funeral, and, making his appeal
to Rollo, forbade further proceedings till
his claim of right was decided. He ad-
dressed the company in these words:
"He who has oppressed Kingdoms by
his army has been my oppressor also, and
has kept me under continual fear OF
death. Since / have outlived him who
injured me, I mean not to acquit him
now he is dead. The ground whereon
you are going to lay this man is mine
and I affirm that none may in future
bury their dead in ground which belongs
to another. If, after he is gone, force
and violence are still used to detain my
right from me, I appeal to Rollo, the
founder and father Of our nation, who
though dead, lives in his laws
II take refuge in these laws, owing tc
no authority above me-" This brave
speech, delivered in presence of the Con
queror's son, Prince Henry, afterwarc
Henry l, wrought its effect. Compensa
ton was Immediately given to Ascelir
for the value of the ground occupied by
the grave, further sum was promised
for the remainder, and the opposition
ceasing, the dead King was duly buried
Mr.. Freeman thinks it improbable tina
William should have wrongfully taker
the land. 1t was not his character tt
commit acts of mere robbery, but there
may have been a dispute Of right ant
Ascelin, having made his appeal to Rollc
according to the custom, the funera
could not have been proceeded with; il
may we'll have been, then, that it was
found more convenient to compensate
him ON the spot than to delay proceed
ings and disappoint those who had come
for the ceremony. .. ..-.-