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But Hayle is hal a salt marsh. 



In all probability Helic is Electa, tvMch see. 



S. Henry, Hermit, Confessor. 



A Dane by birth, who settled in Coquet Island, North- 

 umberland, and died in 1 1 20. 



A chapel bore his name at Wendron. How he came to be 

 commemorated in Cornwall is a puzzle. 



His Peast is on January 16. 



His life by John of Tynemouth is given by Capgrave, 



S. Hermes, Martyr. 



Hermes, the Martyr, has supplanted Arthmael or Erme, and 

 also Erbm, at S. Ervan. 



There were several Martyrs of the name, the most important 

 were : — 



Hermes, M., at Rome, circ. 132; Aiigust 28. 



Hermes, Deacon and M., at Adrianople, 304 ; October 22. 



A chapel to S. Hermes, at S. Hilary, was licensed by Bishop 

 Stapeldon, March 22, 1309. In 1318, July 16, he dedicated 

 " Majus altare ecclesie Sancti Ermetis." — i.e. S. Ervan. 



S. HiA, Virgin. 



One of the Irish settlers in Penwith. 



According to Leland she "was a nobleman's daughter, and 

 a disciple of S. Barricius," i.e. Finbar. He adds that she came 

 with S. Elwyn, and that "one Dinan, a great lord in Cornewaul 

 made a church at Pendinas at the request of la, as it is written 

 in S. le's legend." 



Unhappily both the legends of S. Hia and of S. Elwyn are 

 lost. Dinan is certainly not the name of the lord, it is dinas a 

 castle. 



William of Worcester gives us the additional information 

 that she was the sister of S. Euny and of S. Ere, 



