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In the Inquisition, " Sancti Wynwolay." The saint 



is represented on the fine screen. 

 A chapel at Cradock, in S. Clear (Stafford's Reg. 1417.) 

 In Art he is represented with a crane at his side, and habited as 



an abbot. 

 The aiithority for his Life is the Biography by Wnrdistan, 

 written at the end of the 9th century. This exists in its original 

 form, and interpolated with long passages of pious twaddle. It 

 has been published by Pere Smidt in " Analecta Bolland," T. vii. 

 This Life is the basis on which all others have been built up. 



S. WuLVELLA, Virgin, Abbess. 



One of the sisters of S. Sidwell, consequently also of S. Paul 

 of Leon. She is patroness of Gulval, which Bishop Grandisson's 

 Register gives as " Ecclesia Stfe Welvelae de Lanystly " (1.328) 

 " Vicaria Sanctte WelveltB de Lanistly " (also 1328). In Stafford's 

 Register (1413) "Ecclesia Parochialis Sanctce Gidvelpo alias 

 Wulvela; de Lanestly." The will of William Bachyler, Sept. 

 14, 141'', contains a bequest to the church " Sanctaj Golvela3 " 

 (Bp. Stafford's Register, p. 396, H. Randolph). Ecton, in his 

 Thesaurus Rer. Eccl., calls Laneast the Ohurch of Gulwell. 



It is therefore idle to claim the church of Gulval as dedicated 

 to S. Gudwell, Bishop. 



The parish of S. Paul, the brother of S. Wulvella is 

 separated from that of Gulval by a portion of Madron only. S. 

 Paul must have founded this whilst visiting his sister, before 

 taking ship for Brittany, as already related {see S. Paul of Leon). 

 At Gulval was a community of religious women ; they would 

 need clerics near them so as to minister to them in holy things, 

 and we may suppose that Paul made his foundation for this 

 purpose, and left some disciples there, but for good reasons did 

 not put his community of young men too near to the house for 

 women. 



Bosuval, a farm in the parish, was probably, judging by the 

 name, Wulvella's original settlement, Both-Wulvell. 



S. Wulvella is not only patroness and foundress of Gulval, 

 but also, conjointly with her sister Sidwell, of Laneast. In a 



