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A curious tradition exists at S. Winnow, that S. Nectan 

 lived at Coomb, a ruined farmhouse near S. Nectan's, or as there 

 called S. Neighton's Chapel, and that he was martyred at Toll- 

 gate, some little distance off. 



According to Nicolas Eoscarrock, there was formerly a chapel 

 of S. Nectan with a graveyard in Newlyn parish, " and four stones 

 on a mount or hill at North-west corner, where the crosses and 

 reliques of S. Peran, S. Crantock, S. Cuthbert and 8. Newlan 

 were wont to be placed in rogation week, at which time they used 

 to meet there and had a sermond made to the people, and the last 

 who preachd was the persone Crand in Queen Mary's tyme, as 

 I have been credibly informed by a preist who had been an eye- 

 witness." One of the stones was carried away and turned into a 

 cheese-press, Nicolas Eoscarrock proceeds to say, in or about 

 1580, " by a gentlewoman named Mistress Burlace." But after 

 her death she " or something assuming her personage," was seen 

 in the night carrying back the stone and replacing it where it had 

 been before ; and in Roscarrock's day all four were in their proper 

 places. 



S. Nectan is represented on the tower of the church, and in 

 the west panel of the churchyard ci'oss, habited as a Bishop. 



S. Neot, Hermit, Confessor. 



Neot was nearly related to King Alfi'ed. Leland {Coll. iv, 

 13)fi'om a Life he saw at S. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, says that he 

 was son of Adulf , King of Canterbury, and was brother of King 

 Alfred. But adds a correction in a note, to the effect that he was 

 nephew and not brother. 



He was a man of very short stature. He was educated in 

 Glastonbury i^ibbey, but the desire for a solitary life induced him 

 to depart into Cornwall, and he retired into a hermitage formerly 

 occupied by Gwyi' or Guier, an ancient Cornish recluse. 



It is said that he strongly urged upon King Alfred the 

 establishment of public schools for the English people, doubtless 

 having seen how that among the British the educational system 

 was highly organised. 



