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one of the long list of his countrymen there particularized.* I am 

 therefore driven to the conclusion, that the Nonnita of the inscrip- 

 tion was a different person ; but the inquiry has made it every way 

 probable that she was named after St. Nun, and has shown, I think, 

 very fair grounds for the belief, that several members of the family 

 of the Saint were connected specially with those parts of Roseland, | 

 which may also have been visited by her. — It may be worth while 

 to state these grounds distinctly, as some light may thus be thrown 

 on the relations of Wales and Cornwall at a particular period, and 

 incidentally some corrections may be suggested of the statements 

 given in our most accredited books, in regard to persons of some 

 note in early Cornish legends, and the period at which they lived. 



It will be seen from the subjoined genealogies that Nonnita 

 (Nun) was rather closely related to Cuby, of whose Church this 

 stone forms a part, and to Geraint, from whom the adjoining parish 

 of Gerrans is supposed to be named. 



Pateenal Line op St. Cybi (Cuby). 

 Cystennyn (Constantine) Gorneu, contemporary with Brychan, A.D. 410--45O. 



DiGAiN X Eebin 



YsGiN Gekaint (Grerennius, Gerrans). 



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Gaewy Cado Selyf Cyngae Lestyn 



-^ Cybi 



Selyf married Gwen, the sister of Non, and Cybi was their son ; 

 his mother's ancestry is given as follows : 



* Others may be more fortunate, and, at any rate, the names themselves 

 are valuable, as probably belonging to Cornishmen of note about the^Gth 

 century. 



f It may deserve notice, that the Welsh name of the valley of Eosina, 

 where David founded or restored a Monastery, which was afterwards called 

 Menevia, is EhOs, the same word, meaning moist land, from which Eoseland 

 derives its name. 



+ To Digain the foundation of Llangerniw, or " the Church of the Oorn- 

 ishman," in Denbighshire, is attributed. — Rees' Welsh Saints, p. 134. 



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