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III. — Mijlor Church; its Crosses, Frescoes, c&c. — By the Rev. W. 

 I AGO, B.A., Bodmin. 



THE restoration of the old fabric of Mylor Church, Cornwall, 

 has brought to light many long-hidden traces of its original 

 arrangement and early adornment. The peculiar characteristics of 

 the various parts of the building have been carefully noted by the 

 present Vicar (Rev. J. W. Murray) who, with praiseworthy zeal for 

 the well-being of the church, has preserved as far as possible, or 

 replaced — stone for stone — everything that was interesting or 

 venerable in the structure ; late incongruities only, which marred 

 all beauty and blocked up space, being swept awtiy. 



Before entering upon a detailed description of the church, and 

 of the discoveries which have been made Avithin and about the 

 edifice, it may be well here to refer briefly to a few points con- 

 nected with the history of the locality. 



Mr. Murray has deduced from various sources * that this place 

 was the scene of the martyrdom and burial of a British Christian 

 named Meilyr, in the 5th Century. He considers that the neigh- 

 bouring parish of Mabe was founded, as a daughter-parish, in the 

 following Century, (we know that the two were ecclesiastically 

 united until very recently), and that the patron saints of Mylor, 

 Mabe, and Budock were, by kindred or alliance, of one family.t 



Meilyr (A.D. 400-488) is said to have been one of the sons of 

 Gwron, or Guron, whose pedigree is traced upward through 



* Calendar of the Early British Church, as used in Wales, which gives : 

 St. Melor, Martyr, and Eemigius, Bishop of Lyons, August 28. 



Cressy's Church History of Brittany. 



Professor Eees's Welsh Saints. 



Usher. 



Polwhele's History of Cornwall. 



Camden's Magna Britannia. 



\ According to Welsh records, Mr. Murray points out, Conetoc's great 

 grand- daughter Anaumed was married to Bi die (A.D. 500). Her brother 

 Teilo, Archbishop of Llaudaff, was su?ceeded by her son (his nephew) in his 

 See ; and when St. Teilo had come from Dol, in Brittany, to visit his dying 

 relative Gerennius (Gerrans), Bndic, his v\\n biother-in-law, met him, being 

 Cornish Prince of the district about Budoc, Mylor, and Mabe, 



