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than has been liitlierto thought, and that it was not erected by 

 S. Samson to the memory of King Judicael and this Arthmael, 

 but by an Abbot Samson, at a time posterior, and that the 

 Juthael and Arthmael thereon named, belonged to this later date, 

 and to the house of Morganwg. If so, the coincidence of names 

 at two periods is very remarkable. 



Ai'mel or Arthmael was born in Morganwg, in the Cantred 

 of Penochen. We are not told by the Breton historians the 

 names of his parents, but Arthfael which is the same name, 

 occurs repeatedly in the pedigree of the Morganwg Eoyal family. 



He crossed over to Brittany and founded a Plou at Plouarzel 

 in Leon, but was driven from it by the usurper Conmore, and 

 then he probably returned to Wales, and joined Samson in his 

 expedition. He then accompanied him to Cornwall and passed 

 over with him to Dol. We find him at the court of Childebert, 

 at the same time as Samson, and engaged on the same 

 attempt, to induce the Frank King to permit an insurrection 

 in favour of Judual the rightful heir to the throne of Domnonia. 



Childebert was reluctant to allow of a civil war being 

 engaged in, however he finally suffered Samson and Arthmael to 

 have their way, and after a succession of conflicts Judual was 

 restored and Conmore killed. 



Judual rewarded the service of Arthmael by a liberal grant 

 of land, and the Saint founded a Monastery in the diocese of 

 Eennes. He died on Aug. 16, on which day he is commemorated 

 in the Breviaries of Eennes, Leon, S. Brieuc, and Quimper. 



In the Tavistock Calendar and in that of S. Michael's 

 Mount, S. Hermes was entered on Aug. 28, this was the Roman 

 Martyr who was substituted for Arthmael by the Latinising 

 Bishops of Exeter. The Church S" Ermetis (Eeg. Quivil, 1283,) 

 So also Stapeldon, 1318; S*^ Hermetis (Reg. Stafford, 1405). 



Dedications to S. Arthmael, or Erme, in Cornwall are, a 

 chapel at Stratton,* the church in the Deanery of Powder, and a 

 chapel in S. Hilary, at Marazion (Eeg. Stapeldon, 1308-9). 



* His chapel was in the parish church, his statue on the rood loft, and the 

 Meneday or Feast of the Saint was observed at Stratton (Goulding : The 

 Bianchminster Charity, Lond,, 1898). 



