a joint dedication is that of a primooval, national, or local saint. 

 In most cases the local name has yielded entirely to the pressure 

 and disappeared altogether ; drowned out by the more Catholic 

 or Hierarchal system. The time came when a Catholic or cen- 

 tralizing policy became more active in the church, to which 

 these local associations were felt to be repugnant; and these 

 provincial and national names, upon which sanctity had been 

 rather conferred by popular estimation than by official church 

 authority, were discouraged or actually forbidden, under the 

 pretext that they were barbarous ; as indeed they may have 

 seemed when the intercourse with foreign churches, and the pre- 

 ferments of foreign clergy to English churches became more 

 prevalent. In some cases, however, the older name was 

 tolerated, but in a subordinate place ; either as a politic con- 

 cession to the veneration of the neighbours, whose offerings 

 were still worth having, or some of whose contracts stipulated 

 a fulfillment or payment before the proper altar or shrine of the 

 local patron. Tavistock had the shrine of St. Rumon or Ruan : 

 but on becoming a large monastic foundation, the dedication 

 became St. Mary and St. Eumon. In like manner Bodmin 

 became St. Mary and St. Petrock. The same happened to the 

 Teutonic dedications as well as the Celtic. Thus Ely became St. 

 Peter and St. Etheldreda : Croyland, St. Mary, St. Bartholomew, 

 and St. Ghithlac : and many others. 



St. Samson was a Cornishman by birth or family, and was a 

 kinsman of the St. Pol., Bishop of Leon in Armorican Britain, 

 already mentioned as being among the dedications in the 

 British part of Exeter. St. Samson was also Bishop of Dol 

 in Armorica, where the church of Dol itself, and others in that 

 province, and in Breton Normandy, are under the tutelage of his 

 name. He has also a church in Guernsey, one in Scilly, and two 

 in Cornwall. Two near the borders of Wilts and Gloucestershire, 

 at Cricklade and at Colesbourne. Before he fled to Armorica he 

 is reputed to have been the last British Bishop of York, who was 

 driven thence by the pagan Angles ; and in the city of York 

 there is still a church of St. Samson, which is the only one in 



