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some tMnk, Jestyn ap Greraint, and if those are right who read 

 the name on this stone as Selius, or Selivs, and consider it the 

 same as Selyf, then we have the interesting fact that the church 

 called after one son of the saintly chief Geraint and his wife, 

 sweet Enid, contains also the monument of another of their 

 children. The result is so pretty, that one hardly ventures to throw 

 a doubt upon it, and any one who likes to believe on the slight 

 evidence there is in its favour may do so without reflection from 

 myself. There are some incisions above the letters selus which 

 have been variously read, some regarding them as not being letters 

 at all, and others reading the whole as seniltjs. Letters there 

 certainly are, but not, I think ni. Whatever the right reading 

 is, one thing is clear that the stone is at least 1,000 or 1100 years 

 old or even more. On another side is a Chi Eho within a panel, 

 which some of the text books have mistaken for a bishop's 

 crosier. 



While speaking of tomb-stones, let me di'aw your attention 

 to the admirable simplicity of many in this churchyard, — 

 just the initials of the name with, sometimes, the date of death 

 added. The flaunting vulgarities and heathen symbols of the 

 professional stone-mason are of course to be found at St. Just as 

 elsewhere, but not in the same profusion. 



At different times there have been found other things in this 

 church ; a ring which is figured by Buller, a brass cross (perhaps 

 the same as the "crucifix verry antiq." referred to in a Terrier 

 early in the 18th century) and other things; but they have been 

 mostly lost. 



Any one visiting this church must be struck by the un- 

 usual number of recesses in the walls, especially at the east end of 

 the north aisle. They certainly are not all aumbries, or piscinae, or 

 credence recesses, and an interesting fact concerning them is that 

 in most of them there have been found human bones. Some of 

 these have been interred in the churchyard, but in one place they 

 have been replaced in the north wall, and the aperture closed up, 

 I am told that some of the natives regard them as the remains 

 of St. Just, while others prefer to regard them as referred to in 

 the hicjacet of the Selus stone. 



The beautiful cross-shaft in the north wall deserves your 

 attention. The Celtic interlaced work which covers it will well 



