CAEDINHAM ANTIQUITIES. 363 



All the letters are Lombardic capitals, beautifully cut. Several 

 of them are conjoined. Incised lines separate the lines of letters. 

 The words are divided by vertical triplets of dots. 



The first tablet relates to some vestiarian arrangement, and 

 mentions a holy man's name not easily recognized. 



The longer tablet refers apparently to some foundation, gift, 

 right, or endowment, established in the Church of Cardinham on 

 St. Faith's Day, A.D. 1200 [in honor of God] as well as of the 

 Church's patron Saint, Mewbred the martyr. 



A figure of St. Mewbred appears in the stained glass of St_ 

 Neot's Church. He is there shewn wearing a brass skull-cap, 

 and carrying in his hands a head to signify that he was martyred 

 by decapitation. 



William of Worcester about 1478, wrote*: — 



" The body of St. Mybbard the hermit, 

 (son of a King of Ireland) otherwise called Colrog, 

 lies in a shrine in the Church of Kardynan, 

 2 miles from Bodmin. His day is kept on the 

 Thursday next before Pentecost." 



Inscriptions more ancient than those just described have yet 

 to be considered, but it is noteworthy that so early a date as A.D. 

 1200, should here be found cut upon stone, Probably there is 

 not anotherf such instance in the county, although older dates 

 written upon parchment, at the times they specify, are not un- 

 frequently met with. 



In the churchyard are evidences which seem to confirm the 

 statement that Christianity was established at this spot before the 

 Conquest, and consequently long before any Anglo-Norman 

 Dinham founded the present Church fabric. 



Most worthy of notice is 



AN INSCEIBED CEOSS. 

 This is a handsome cross of the Anglo-Saxon type, and was found 

 in two portions imbedded in the chancel wall. Head and shaft 

 are now re-united, and the cross stands opposite to the south porch. 



* " Sanctus Mybbard heremita, filius regis HiberniEe, alitor dictus Colrogus, 

 " ejus corpus jacet in Scrinio ecclesiEe de Kardynan, distat per duo miliaria de 



' ' Bodman secundum relationum uxoris ecclesise qui f uit natus in parochia, 



" et ejus dies agitur die jovis proxima ante festum Pentecostes" (Itin :). Concerning 

 St. Mewbred see also Bothes Reg., fo. 22. 



t On the Hayle stone, " Do " has been read by some for A.D. 600, but the 

 letters can be taken in quite a different sense, not in any way referring to a date. 



