CHRONICLES OF CORNISH SAINTS. I. — S. CUBY. 815 



S, Grorran, having left his humble abode at Bodmin, was about tliis 

 time labouring on the eastern outskirts of Edseland, where now a 

 parish Church commemorates his name."' S. Petrock was organ- 

 izing a monastic institution on the site oF S. Gorran's former her- 

 mitage. S. Mawes, attracted perhaps by the neighbourhood of 

 the good King Gerennius and his family, had built a cell on the 

 western confines of the little kingdom ; and as he was represented 

 as a Schoolmaster t on the walls of a Chapel that once stood in the 

 village which now bears his name, may we not conjecture that he 

 was an instructor of the youthful Cuby 1 A brief Latin life of 

 our Saint,:}: written probably in the twelfth century, and pub- 

 lished, with a translation, by the Welsh MS. Society, || tells us 

 that he began to read when he was seven years of age, and that 

 he remained in his native land for twenty years. Then, it informs 

 us, he went to Jerusalem to adore the sepulchre of our Lord ; on 

 his return, took up his abode with S. Hilary, Bishop of Poictiers ; 

 received from him the episcopal degree ; and remained with him 

 fifty years. Part of this narrative, is, hoAvever, to say the least 

 of it, unhistorical. The pilgrimage to Jerusalem is probable 

 enough, and may without question be regarded as a fact, because 

 it is quite in harmony with the practice of saintly men of that 



* " In Talle ubi S. Gurontis [fuit] solitarie in parvo tugurio, quod re- 

 linquens tradidit S. Petroco." — Leland's Coll: I, 75. 



" He went probably and settled in Gorran parish, whieh was therefore 

 denominated from him ; residing, I suppose, at Polgorran, or Gorran's Pool, 

 a little north of the Church." — Whitaker's Cathedral of Cormvall, I, 38. 



f " Scant a quarter of a mile from the Castel, on the same side, upper 

 into the land, is a praty village or fischar town with a pare, called S. Maws ; 

 & there is a Chappelle of Hym, & his Chaire of stone a litle without, & his 

 Welle. They cauUe this Sainct there S. Mat .... he was a Bishop 

 in Britain, & [is] painted as a Schole-Master." — Leland's Itin., iii, page 19. 



+ This document is in the British Museum, Cott. MSS. Ves2}as : A. xiv, 

 ff. 83, 85. There is also another Life amongst the Cott. MSS,ff. 91, 6 — 136, 

 different in phraseology but identical in matter, and apparently of the same 

 age; and a third of later date, Cott. MSS. Tiber; E. i, ff. 276—278, which 

 has been printed by Capgrave in his Nova Legenda Anglice. There is also a 

 similar MS. in the Bodleian Library, Tanner, 15. The most complete is that 

 published by the Welsh MS. Society. — The Library of Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin, contains also a MS. Life of S. Cuby, in Latin, which appears to be a 

 copy of the second above-mentioned Cottonian MS. 



Ij Lives of the Cambro-Brit. Saints. 



