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hither ; but yet Tertullian says : " The Britons, inhabitants of 

 places unknown to the Eomans, yet did obey and were subject to 

 the Kingdom of Christ." Among British Saints we have SS. 

 Aaron, Moses, Joseph, Samson, David, &c. We have a Solomon,*" 

 Duke of Cornwall. And, in the Manumissions recorded in the 

 Bodmin Gospels, we find some, witnesses and others as well as 

 serfs, Avith unmistakeably Hebrew names, Abel, Benjamin, David, 

 Elie, Elisaved, Isaac, Joseph, Noe, Solomon, Samuel, and, strangest 

 of all, Jesu, which can scarcely have been a Christian's, but 

 may have been a Jew's name. And let it not be supposed that 

 such names were as common in other parts of the country as 

 in Cornwall. Mr. Thorpe, in his Diplomahmum Anglicum jEvi 

 Saxonici, beginning at page 621, gives us these and several other 

 Records of Manumissions in Saxon times ; but in none of them, 

 not even in those at Bath, nor yet at Exeter, are there any such 

 names to be found. Saxon names are common, of course, and 

 there are some British or Celtic, but no Hebrew names, which I 

 think must be regarded as a strong confirmation of the traditions 

 above referred to, relating to a time and a people of which we 

 have no contemporary history. 



Thus far we have not touched upon what the Professor con- 

 siders to be the sole ground for " the historical legends of Jews 

 settled in Cornwall," — the metamorphic process to which certain 

 " names and other relics of the language " have been subjected. 

 Let us now take one of these names, Marazion, and its alias. Market 

 Jew. Had we not historical documentary evidence of the connec- 

 tion of the Jews with the county, prior to the occurrence of the 

 oldest form of the name of the little market-town facing the well- 

 known S. Michael's Mount, we might have acquiesced in the con- 

 clusion to which the Professor comes respecting it, and have treated 

 the vulgar opinion as a " verbal myth," one of those " fables " which 

 " have thrown a haze over the annals of the whole county." 



Professor Max Muller has a long array of the different modes 

 of spelling the names of the place m question. He gives 19 



* This was a familiar name among the Dukes and Counts of Bretagne. 

 We do not claim either them or our Duke (-whose father, Geraint, was a. 

 Christian) as Jews ; but the name may shew connection with, and respect for, 

 this peculiar people, and may add something to the cumulative evidence for 

 the point in dispute, or help to account for the tradition. 



