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A further change was effected. Under their ecclesiastical 

 heads they assumed a literary and ecclesiastical complexion 

 admirably suited for clerks, but less adapted to the needs of 

 those who would live in the world. 



The three points here indicated deserve to be illustrated. 



(I.) Perhaps the most noted of all masters was Mancen, or, as 

 we call him in Cornwall, Mawgan. His head college was Ty 

 Gwyn, the White House, which has now been satisfactorily located 

 near Forth Mawr, in Pembrokeshire.* This was a great establish- 

 ment where missionaries were trained, men who have left their 

 mark in Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall, as well as Wales. It 

 was a double establishment, and Non, the mother of St. David, 

 was there educated. So was the daughter of Drust, a British 

 king, who ruled from 523 to 528. At that time in the monastic 

 school there resided Pinnian, afterwards a famous teacher at 

 Clonard, and two other Irishmen, Rioe and Talmach. Drustic 

 fell desperately in love with Eioc, and bribed Pinnian by a 

 promise of a copy of all Mancen's MSS. books to act as her go- 

 between. Pinnian agreed, but acted treacherously, for what 

 reason we do not know, and he conveyed to the damsel the 

 addresses of Talmach in place of those of Rioc. 



Mancen got wind of this nice little affair, and he was highly 

 incensed, so much so that he told a boy to take a hatchet, hide 

 behind the oratory, and hew at Pinnian as he came at early dawn 

 to Mattins. The boy agreed, but by some mistake Mancen pre- 

 ceded the pupil, and the lad struck at him and felled him. 

 Happily the blow was not mortal, f 



St. Kieran had much trouble with his pupil Oarthagh, who 

 was a very loose fish, and he had to expel him. Senan of 

 Iniscathy appears to have been of the extreme party for the 

 separation of the sexes into distinct schools. 



In the curious fragment, often quoted, on the Orders of the 

 Irish saints, a distinction is drawn between the first order or 

 generation, that of the period of St. Patrick and the Apostolic 



* " Archseologia Cambrensis," Jan., 1898. 



fThe story is in the Gloss to Meugint's Hymn in the Irish Liher Hymnorum. 

 The story occurs also, with some variation, in the Life of St. Finnian. Drustic 

 by Talmach, became the mother of St. Lonan (Martyr. Donegal, Nov. 1). 



