A stone tablet over the main entrance of the
Manor House was carved with the armorial bearings of the ancient
family of Tilly, with the date of its erection, and a pious
invocation placing the house under the special protection of St.
Michael de Thury, the patron saint of the House of Tilly.
The Manor House of Tilly had been built by Charles Le Gardeur de
Tilly, a gentleman of Normandy, one of whose ancestors, the Sieur de
Tilly, figures on the roll of Battle Abbey as a follower of Duke
William at Hastings. His descendant, Charles Le Gardeur, came over
to Canada with a large body of his vassals in 1636, having obtained
from the King a grant of the lands of Tilly, on the bank of the St.
Lawrence, "to hold in fief and seigniory,"--so ran the royal
patent,--"with the right and jurisdiction of superior, moyenne and
basse justice, and of hunting, fishing, and trading with the Indians
throughout the whole of this royal concession; subject to the
condition of foi et hommage, which he shall be held to perform at
the Castle of St. Louis in Quebec, of which he shall hold under the
customary duties and dues, agreeably to the coutume de Paris
followed in this country.
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