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It miglit serve to distinguish him, if in Art he were 

 represented as a Deacon, holding a book with Rituale inscribed 

 thereon. 



S. JuTWARA, Virgin Martyr. 



A sister of S. Sidwell, and consequently also of S. Paul of 

 Leon. Whytford in his " Martyrologe," says: " Juthwara, a 

 virgyn, that by her step-moder was falsely accused unto her owne 

 broder of fornicacyon, for the whiche in a fury he stroke off her 

 heed, which heed she herself toke up before hjin, and all his 

 people, and there sprange up a well and a green tree growing 

 therby ; than bare she her heed into the chirche were after were 

 shewed many grete myracles." 



The story is given more fully by Capgrave. He says that 

 Eadwara, Wilgitha, and Sidwell were her sisters ; but I suspect 

 that Eadwara and Jutwara are one and the same. 



In the Life of S. Paul of Leon, we are told that he had three 

 sisters and two brothers, but that in consequence of the distance 

 of time at which the writer composed his biography, and the 

 space of sea intervening between him and Britain, he could 

 recover the name of only the third sister, SicofoUa, i.e. Sativola 

 or Sidwell, and of those of three brothers, Notalius and Potoliua ; 

 biit that in all there were nine brothers. 



The brother in the story of Jutwara, who plays so ill a part 

 is called Bana. Leland, who saw the Legend of S. Sidwell at 

 Exeter, says the name of the father was Benna. According to 

 the Life of S. Paul it was Porphius. 



On the death of their mother, the father married again, and, 

 in time, he also died. 



Jutwara grew pale as wax, and her step-mother asked her the 

 cause. She replied that she was suffering from pains in her 

 chest. The step-mother advised the application of a cream- 

 cheese ; and then told Bana a scandalous story affecting his 

 sister ; ' ' atque in argumentum fidei interulam puellee a pectore 

 ejus extrahere suadit : dicens eam profluente de mamillis lacte 

 madidam fore." The young man rushed to find his sister, and 

 meeting her as she was returning from church, charged her with 

 incontinence^ She was staggered and speechless at this accusation. 



