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IV. — Nangitha Cross. — By James Jago, M.D., Oxon., F.E.S. 



1'J\ XCEPTING a narrow sjDace, next the church, the small farm 

 J of Nangitha alone intervenes between the parish church of 

 Budock and the large estate of Kigilliack (or Kegellik), which was 

 " once a seat of the Bishops of Exeter." Nangitha lies, in other 

 respects, too, so closely related to a district that has been celebrated 

 in the Cornu-Celtic Miracle Play, bearing the Latin title of Ordinale 

 de Origine Mundi, that I have thought that any hitherto-unnoticed 

 ecclesiastical remains that may be seen thereon, though only those 

 of a dismembered cross of no great artistic merit, might have a 

 literary interest for the members of this society. Moreover, I 

 have thought that I might make an account of this cross the 

 medium for conveying a little information about the district in 

 question, which may prove corrective of some of the comments 

 that have been supplied by E. H. P. in the Appendix to Norris' 

 translation of the drama. 



This drama on the creation, before it ends, embraces the time 

 of the building of Solomon's temple ; and that munificent King is 

 made to say to his chief " carpenters " on the completion of the 

 structure : 



"Blessing of the Father be on you!- 

 You shall have, by God's faith, 



Your payment, surely; 

 Together all the field of Bohellan, 

 And the wood of Penryn, wholly. 

 I give them now to you ; 

 And all the water-courses. 

 The island and Arwinnick, 

 Tregenver, and Kegellik, 



Make of them a charter to you."* 



Close to the parish of Gluvias, but lying within that of Budock, 

 there once flourished at Penryn the collegiate Church of St. Thomas 

 of Glasney, and the conjecture that the author of the drama was 

 one of its resident ecclesiastics has been commonly approved. 



* The Ancient Cornish Drama. By Mr. Edwin Norris, Sec. E.A.S., 

 Vol. I, p. 197. 



