290 COKNISH DEDICATIONS. 



S. IvE, Bishop, Confessor. 



S. Ive of the Deanery of East is quite another person from 

 S. Ive of Penwith. 



In the Register of Bishop Bronescombe, the church is called 

 "Ecclesia S" Hivonis," 1258, in those of Bishops Bytton and 

 Grandisson, 1314, 1338, 1349, " Sancti Ivonis." 



On April 24, 1001, a labourer found a body incorrupt in 

 pontifical habits, at Slejie in Huntingdonshire. He pretended 

 that he had been informed in a dream that this was the body of a 

 Persian bishop Ivo, who had come to evangelise Mid England at 

 the same time that Augustive arrived in Kent. The Abbot of 

 Eamsey who wa.s, undoubtedly, at the bottom of this scandalous 

 imputation, had the body enshrined, and a town sprang up on the 

 site, that is now called S. Ives. A Life was evolved out of his 

 internal consciousness and the lying story of the husbandman, 

 by one Andrew Whitman, Abbot of Dorchester, in 1020, and this 

 was re-written by Joscelin, monk of Eamsey, in 1088. It is 

 almost needless to say that S. Ivo is a purely apocryphal saint, 

 fabricated out of sordid greed of gain. 



The day attribtited to him is June 10, and the translation 

 April 24. It is tolerably certain that the S. Ive of the deanery 

 of East is not this person, as the parish feast coincides with 

 neither day held in his honour. 



There was a Johannes as also a Jona accounted among the 

 sons of Brychan, according to William of Worcester, and it is 

 possible that this church was a foundation of the Brechnock 

 John. The fact that a John was regarded as one of the Brychan 

 clan and a founder in Cornwall points to this. There is no other 

 church in the county that can well be attributed to him, and the 

 adjoining parish is S. Cleer, whom I identify with S. Clether, 

 and who was consequently a kinsman — in fact a nephew. S. 

 Keyne settled near by was his sister. 



No John (in Welsh and Cornish Ewan) is known in the Welsh 

 accounts of the family of Brychan, but there is a Docfan 

 or Dyvan. Sanct in combination with Dyvan would speedily 

 become Sanct Ivan. Locally the pronunciation is Ewe. S. Ive's 

 was made over to the preceptory of the Knight's Hospitallers, 

 but the village feast has no relation to the festivals of S. John 

 the Divine. It is on February 3 



