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The chapel of S. Herbot is in the parish of Loqeffret. It 

 has a tower and is planted in a green valley among beech trees, 

 at the foot of bleak hills. A few houses about it are converted, 

 during the pa/rdon, into so many hostelries, and the ample stables 

 and sheds receive the cattle that have come to offer their tails to 

 the Saint. The chapel has a fine flamboyant gallery above the 

 West porch, dating from 1526. The great East window bears 

 the date 1556, The choir contains some magnificent wood work 

 of the renaissance period, and the tomb of S. Herbot. On the 

 sarcophagus he is represented in hermit's garb, the hood thrown 

 back ; his head and hair are long ; from his girdle hangs his 

 breviary, in one hand is a staff, and his feet repose on a lion.* 



In the Breton Litanies of the 9th and 10th century, the 

 name is Hoiarnbiu,f and this has become Herbot. The 

 Bollandists give June 17 as his day, solely because that is the 

 day of S. Huerve. As the Pardon is in May, it is clearly an 

 error to give his festival in June. 



S. Etheleed. 

 A chapel in the parish of S. Dominick is said to have had 

 this very Saxon dedication. Not a trace of it now remains. The 

 only notice of it is a hcence granted to Roger Waterman, rector, 

 9th April, 1405, for the chapel. I suspect the site was Boetheric, 

 and that the saint was not originally Etheldred. 



There were two Ethelred Saints, one the King of Mercia, 

 son of the ferocious Penda, who succeeded his brother Wulfhere, 

 in 675, and after a reign of thirty years retired to the Abbey of 

 Bardney, where he died in 716. The other Ethelred was a Prince 

 of Kent, who was murdered in 670. There was some inexplicable 

 association with Mercia in the West, as we have at Warbstow 

 and Wembury, churches dedicated to the Mercian S. Milburga. 

 In these cases we may suppose the strongholds were occupied by 

 Mercian soldiers, guarding the coast against the Danes, but this 

 will not explain a dedication in S. Dominick to S. Ethehed. 



*Le Braz, in '• Annales de Bretagne," (1893). 

 f This however may be intended for Huerve. 



