and their appurtenances, done in the church of the Holy Mother of God, Mary, at Therouanne, in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1026, reigning Robert King of the French, Balduino vero marchionatum agente triccsimo nono, to which Signum Gerbodonis, advocati. Signum Ernulfi advocati, are the only lay signatures. In 1056 a serious altercation took place between Bovo abbot of St. Bertin and Gerbod, the avoué of this house, by reason of unjust exactions levied by the latter in the town of Arques upon their servants and tenants, the settlement of which Baldwin, then Comte of Flanders, surnamed Pius, and Insulanus from Lille, a town of Flanders, the place of his birth, undertook, as we learn from his charter, made with the consent of both parties, and to which was this date:
Acta est hec confirmatio a me Balduino, Flandrensium Dei gratia marchione, anno dominice incarnationis millesimo quinquagesimo sexto, indictione nona, regnante Henrico Francorum Rege, in villa Sancti Audomari in basilica sancti Petri, die sancto Epiphanie, astantibus hujus rei testibus strenuis viris, quorum nomina subter tenentur inserta: Signum Balduini, incliti marchionis. Signum Drogonis, episcopi Taruannensis. Signum Gerardi, Cameracensis episcopi. Signum Bovonis, abbatis. Signum Leduini abbatis. Signum Eustatii comitis. Signum Rogeri, comitis. Signum Ingelramni comitis. Signum Roberti de Bethunia. Signum Rodulfi Gandensis. Signum Elgoti Attrebatensis. Signum Gerbodonis advocati. Signum Anselmi. Signum Alolfi de Hesdin. Signum Elvardi militis. Signum Huberti, militis. Signum Walteri militis. Signum Christiani, scriptoris hujus privilegii.
To another charter of the same Comte of Flanders reciting the origin and possessions of the abbey of Bergues-Saint-Winox, which having been first belonging to secular canons, was by him changed into a Benedictine abbey, with this date; actum est hoc Bergis in solemni curia Pentecostes anno Dominice Incarnationis millesimo sexagesimo septimo, indictione quarta, adstante Drogone Teruanensi episcopo, we have these, signatures; Signum Balduini gloriosi comitis. Signum Adelæ Comitissæ. Signa Balduini attque Roberti, filiorum ejus. Signum Eustachii comitis Boloniæ. S. Rogeri de Sancto Paulo. S. Anselmi de Hesdin. S. Joannis Attrebatensis. S. Hugonis Anct. Signum Gerbodonis Advocati de Sancto Bertino. Signum Raingoti de Gant. Signum Balduini de Gant. S. Alardi Ernes. S. Cononis filii ejus. Signum
