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S. Petroc's Church at Exeter, Petroc being a purely Welch 

 saint. Of the dedications of olden fanes at Shaftesbury I think 

 that St. Martin, St. Laurence, and St. Mary (the small one) may 

 be of British foundation. St. Martin was a Gaulish, and so a 

 Celtic saint. There was once, by the History of Dorset, a small 

 free chapel of S. Michael, a common Celtic dedication, as that of 

 S. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, and in Britanny. There are in 

 Wales more than twelve parishes, or hamlets, of the name 

 Llanfihangel "Michael's Church," and several other dedications 

 to St. Michael in Cornwall. St. Michael's Chapel, on the Tor, 

 at Glastonbury, holds, I can believe, the place of a British 

 dedication, for Glastonbury (Ynys avallon) was a holy spot 

 with the Britons. S. Laurence may be a Eoman dedication 

 brought to the Britains by the early missionaries, or it may be 

 Norman. It is not a Saxon one. The foreboding of Eryr was 

 that the Britons, after a loss of much of Britain, should again 

 have sway over the whole of it, and I want to ask whether, if the 

 Prince of Wales should become King of Britain, " Unben yr ynys 

 Prydain," this prophecy will not be fulfilled ? As we walk down 

 on the site of the abbey and about the olden streets and nooks of 

 Shaftesbury we may well say to ourselves, " Lightly tread, tis 

 hallowed ground." 



DUENSETI. 



I am thankful for the kindly attention which the Dorset Field 

 Club gave to my paper at the Shaftesbury meeting, and am 

 glad that Mr. Kerslake confirms my opinion as to the British 

 population in Dorset, and I fully believe that he is right as to 

 the " Durnseti " for " Dunseti." Dorset, as is shown by Saxon 

 charters, as well as by earlier writings, was on Saxon lips 

 Durnsaet or Dornsaet. King Alfred's Will also affords a clear 

 token of a two-kinned population in our south-west of Britain in 

 his time. He gives to his youngest son the land at " Dene " 

 (now Dean) and at "Meone" (Meon, Hants), and at "Ambres- 

 bury ' 7 ( Amesbury , Wilts), and at ' ' Deone, ' ' and at ' ' Sturemynster ' ' 



