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At any rate there is a distinctly separate geographical area of 

 a St. Pancras over the south-west of England, all in the Dam- 

 nonian province ; which must therefore be attributed to this 

 earlier Celtic transmission. The intimate intercourse of the Dam- 

 nonian and Armorican peoples, and their apostles or missionaries 

 needs only to be referred to. The same dedications and place 

 names that are found in one are constantly repeated in the other ; 

 including this of S. Pancratius. The western insular ones of St. 

 Pancras are : Five in Devon, and, although none have been 

 found within Cornwall, two of these are on the Tamar, north and 

 south ; and one of them is in the group of dedications within 

 Exeter that marks the prse-Athelstan Celtic quarter of that city. 

 One is in the Dartmoor highlands, where Celtic blood still pre- 

 dominates. Although another Devon one is on the border of 

 Dorset, east of Axmouth, the only one within Dorset is this at 

 Alton, about which we are now engaged. In Gloucestershire was 

 an anciently extinct chapel of St. Pancras attached to Winchcombe 

 Abbey, and another, an extinct parish now absorbed into Marsh- 

 field ; but none throughout Cambrian Wales ; nor elsewhere in 

 England besides the Roman ones above recited, except " Pencrich 

 Hall," formerly at Oxford; which, if a " Pancras," would of 

 course be only a reflected provincial association, like Exeter 

 College and Lincoln College are now. 



The community of these Damnonian saints with those of 

 Armorica, or the continental Britain of the opposite coast of the 

 English Channel, comes very distinctly into view in a Litany, 

 printed from a MS. of the tenth century in the Vetera Analecta 

 of Mabillon, and reprinted by Messrs Haddan and Stubbs.* 

 Among the saints suff raged in this Litany are "S. Pancrate," 

 "S. Samson," " S. Branwalatre," and " St. Jullita;" and, 

 although not so narrowly national, "S. Germane," the name 

 with which we are next concerned. 



*Councils, n., p. 8L 



