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"Parisli of S. Minver."* Taking the epigraph as including three 

 names, it has appeared to me rather curious, that they may all, 

 without violence, be appropriated to one great Welsh family, that 

 of Cunedda Wledig, to which, both St. David and Carannog,f after 

 whom the adjoining Parish of Crantock is named, were related. 



The father of Cunedda, (in Latin, Cunedagius), was called Edeyrn, 

 here represented by Teyern, and the name of one of his sons was 

 Mael, the Saint of two Churches in Wales. — Such conjectures may 

 be excused ; I but it is probable that the names incised on the se 

 monuments belonged, for the most part, to families of merely local 

 consideration. — Further evidence may, perhaps, tend to show that 

 this particular district, on the northern coasts of Cornwall, was, 

 like Eoseland in the south, more especially associated, at one time, 

 with missionaries from Wales. 



* Mr. Carne further writes : " In S. Gonnett's in Eoche, and Langunnet 

 *' in S. Veep, we trace the name of the hermit Conandus or Gonaudus, to 

 "whom Eoche Church is dedicated; he may have been the same as Conan, 

 " Bishop of Bodmin and S. Germans, A.D. 936." Touching S. Gwiuedoc, 

 it is curious how the country people have preserved, whilst vulgarizing, the 

 original name, in the pronunciation Sinkin Neddy, evidently debased from 

 San Kennedy — the termination, oc, is sunk. — C. B. 



f According to the Welsh genealogy, Carannog was a nephew of St. Non, 

 and a first cousin of Dewi, (St. David), both of them being grandsons of 

 Ceredig, the son of Cunedda Wledig. — Carannog appears to have been a 

 saint and missionary of considerable eminence. — A few extracts from the 

 account of him, by John of Teignmouth, as translated by Cressy, may be 

 amusing, as a specimen of the way in which the lives of saints were written 

 in the middle ages. " A certain jDrince, named Keredic, had many children ; 

 " among which, one was called Carantoc. Now, in those days, the Scotts did 

 " grievously vex Brittany (Britain), so that his father, unable to sustain the 

 "weight and troubles of gove^j^nment, would have resigned the province to 

 " Carantoc, but he, who loved the celestial ICing far more than an earthly 

 " kingdom, fled away ; and having bought of a poor man a wallet and a staff, 

 " by God's conduct was brought to a certain pleasant place, where he, reposing, 

 " built an oratory, and there spent his time in the praises of God. — At last he 

 "passed over into Ireland, invited by his affection to St. Patrick. Whither 

 " being come, by common advice they determined to separate themselves, and 

 " that one of them should travel in preaching the gospel toward the right 

 " hand, the other toward the left. In their company were many ecclesiastical 

 " persons attending them ; and they agreed once every year to meet together 

 " at an appointed j)lace." — Rees, Op. cit, p. 209. 



+ Many such attempts at identification, more or less plausible, might be 

 offered : I will confine myself to one. On the stone at St. Dogmael's, in 

 Wales, and on the Fardel Stone,- — the text of a very able paper by Mr. 

 Smirke, in our Eeport for 1861, — ^the name of Sagranus (or perhaps Sasranus, 

 for the first and third letters are identical in form in both cases), occurs, associ- 

 ated with Irish Oghams. — Is not this S. Saeran, a native of Ireland, and an 

 active missionary in Wales, in the latter half of the 6th Century ? 



