202 THE BISHOPRIC OF CORNWALL. 



" upon the sea," we must not omit to observe ^at he describes in 

 the same terms the position of S. Germans, which, as well as 

 Bodmin, is some miles inland. 



For he adds, " Some say that it was at S. Germans, near the 

 river Liner, upon the sea, in the southern part." 



The meaning of this passage will be illustrated and explained 

 by the following quotations. 



The Welsh Chronicles, cited by the Eevd. John "Williams of 

 Nerquis, in his Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry, are stated 

 to contain the following passage under the date 981 : — 



" The Danes overran and pillaged Devon and Cornwall, burned 

 the town of Bodmin, and the Cathedral of S. Petrock, with the 

 Bishop's house ; which occasioned the Bishop's See to he removed to 

 S. Germans." * 



The destruction of Bodmin is mentioned in the Saxon Chron- 

 icle under the same date : — 



" In this year Saint Petrockstow was ravaged, and that same 

 year was much harm done everywhere by the sea-coast, as well 

 among the men of Devon, as among the Welsh," t that is, the 

 Cornu-Welsh. 



So Florence of Worcester : — 



''A.D. 981. — The Monastery of S. Petrock the Confessor in 

 Cornwall was devastated by the pirates, who in the preceding 

 year had devastated Southampton, and afterwards in Devon, and 

 even in Cornwall, they made frequent spoil along the sea-coasts." % 



And Matthew of Westminster : — 



"A.D, 981. — This year also the Monastery of Saint Petrock 



* The Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry, by the Eevd. John Wil- 

 liams, chapter vii. 



f Saxon Chronicle. 



\ DCCCCLXXXI.— Saucti Petroci Confessoris Monasterimn in ComubiS 

 devastatum est a piratis, qui anno prjeterito Sutbamptoniam devastarunt, 

 qni deinde in Domnania, et in ipsa Cornubia, circa ripas maris frequentes 

 prcedas agebaut." — Florence of Worcester's Chronicle. 



