IV. — Chronicles of Cornish Saints. 



I.— S. CUBY. 



By the Reverend John Adams, M. A., Incumbent of Stockcross, Berks. 



AMONGST the holy men who laid the foundation of the Church 

 in Cornwall, and whose names have become as imiDerishable 

 as the rocky land with v/hich they are associated, there is not one 

 to whom Cornwall can better substantiate her claim than to S. 

 Cuby. Most of the other saints, who have left their impress upon 

 her hills and valleys, were strangers by birth, — missionaries, who 

 came hither from distant lands to convert the heathen aborigines 

 to the faith of Christ. But Cuby was a native Cornishman. His 

 father was a chieftain of ancient lineage, Selyf or Solomon by 

 name, and his grandfather was Gerennius, the sainted king whose 

 deeds are celebrated in ancient song.* His mother, whose name 

 was Gwen, was a great-grand-daughter of Vortigern, the famous 

 British chief, and a sister of S. Non, the mother of S. David, 

 Tradition tells us that his family had an ancestral abode at Ger- 

 rans, called Din Gerein, and that his father Solomon built a castle 

 in the parish of Veryan, on the south side of the present road 

 from Veryan to Pendower, the earthworks of which may still be 

 seen. There we may suppose that Cuby spent the early years of 

 his life. He was probably born at the end of the fifth century, 

 when the superstitions of Druidism had to a great extent been up- 

 rooted by the labours of Christian teachers. There is good reason 

 to suppose that Christianity was extensively embraced in Cornwall 

 upwards of a hundred years before this time, and that there were 

 many zealous ministers of Christ living within reach of Cuby's 

 early home. A band of missionaries from Ireland had in the 

 previous generation settled in many places along the western coast. 



" Heroic Elegies of Llywarch Hen." 

 Myv: Arch: I, 13; II, 68. 



