396 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



At Laneastthe Feast is regulated by that at Altarnun, and 

 falls on the last Sunday in July or the first in August. 



Among the additions to an Exeter Calendar of the 12th 

 century in the British Museum, her day is given as August 1, 

 but this is probably a mistake for August 2. Nicholas Eoscarrock 

 gives July 31 ; this agrees with the Altarnun Feast. 



S. SiLVANTJS. 



In the Inquisitio Nonarum is mention of a chapel of S. 

 Silvanus in Buryan parish. Mr. Borlase thinks Silvanus is the 

 same as S. Levanus. But there is an inscribed stone at St. Just, 

 SELVS Hic JACiT, which may be a contraction of Seollan or Sillan, 

 a name that occurs in Irish Calendars. 



S. SiTH, Virgin Abbess. 



In the centre of the stone camp of Hellsbury, in Michael- 

 stowe Parish, are the ruins of an oblong orientated chapel 

 dedicated to S. Sith. The fragments of cut granite belong to 

 the 15th century. 



This formidable position was held by the earls of Cornwall, 

 but before the Norman Conquest, and indeed before the Saxon 

 domination, it must have been a stronghold ; and it has the 

 characteristics of an Irish stone camp. 8. Sith is but another 

 form for Itha fivhich see. J 



Whytford says in his Martyrologe, 1526: ''The feest of 

 Saynt Dorythy, that by an other name is called also Saynt Sythe, 

 y* was a grete blode, and whan she sholde have ben maryed unto 

 a gentyle she flede into a monastery of virgyns where y*^ deuyll 

 appered unto her, and whan he coude not persuade nor entreate 

 her to leve her purpose he threatened her but all she despysynge 

 toke y^ next morowe ye habyte, and was after abesse of holy 

 lyfe, and many myracles. She moche loved Pouerte in so moche 

 y'^ whan golde and ryches was offered unto her she cast it fi-om 

 her with disdayne and called for water to washe her handes 

 bycause she had touched that filthy- muck and dungue of the 

 erth." 



Her day is January 15, 



