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brought to bear upon it. Of the saint's subsequent labours in 

 Wales, the MSS. are unfortunately silent. They merely tell us 

 that on Cuby's return, Maelgwn reigned over the provinces of 

 North Wales, and that after some unavailing opposition he be- 

 stowed on him a tract of land and a castle,'^ in which he spent the 

 remainder of his days. Welsh tradition has, however, preserved 

 many memorials of the zeal and holiness of the saint. It tells us 

 that he often held religious intercourse with a contemporary saint, 

 called Elian ; and the place where these two holy men were wont 

 to meet is still pointed out. A similar tradition has been handed 

 down respecting Cuby and Seiriol, another contemporary, who 

 dwelt on a small island, called Priestholm, near Beaumaris. Mid- 

 way between Caer Gybi and Seiriol's Chapel on Priestholm island, 

 there are at the present time two wells, which are said to mark 

 the site of their weekly converse. They are called Ffynon Seiriol 

 and Ffynon G-ybi, and have always been held in great reverence 

 by the neighbouring peasantry. What better memorial could there 

 be of the two holy men than those two pure and unfailing springs, 

 making the wilderness and solitary place like the garden of the 

 Lord, and symbolizing the blessings of friendship, as they blend 

 together in their pilgrimage to the parent sea 1 This beautiful 

 tradition is remarkably corroborated by another which associates 

 together the names of those good men, and tells us that they were 

 called " Seiriol Wyn a Chybi Felyn " — Seiriol the Fair and Cybi 

 the Brown ; because in their weekly journeys to and from the 

 well, Cuby always faced the sun, travelling eastward in the morn- 

 ing, and westward in the evening ; whereas Seiriol always journeyed 

 with his back to the sun. 



Of Cuby's ministerial work in Wales, several memorials remain 

 to compensate for the silence of the old memoirs. There are three 

 Churches in the Principality which still preserve his memory, viz., 



* The walls of this castle still exist, and form the boundary of the 

 chm-chyard of Caer Gybi. "It is," says Pennant, in his description of this 

 churchyard, " a square of 220 feet by 130 feet. Three sides are inclosed 

 with strong walls, 17 feet high and 6 feet thick ; the fourth side is open to 

 the precipitous rocks of the harbour-, and never had been walled, being in- 

 tended for ships to retire to, and receive the benefit of protection from this 

 inclosure. At each corner of the wall is an oval tower. The masonry of the 

 whole is evidently Eoman ; the mortar very hard, and mixed with much 

 coarse pebble." — Pennant's Tour, iii, 75. 



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