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There is reason to surmise that even the great founders in 

 Armorica Avere not satisfied without branch houses in Cornwall. 



There is a Landewednack in the Lizard district, and a 

 Landewennec, the mother house, in Brittany. Both hold S. 

 Winwaloe as their patron. Winwaloe was the son of a Brychan 

 or Fragan cousin to Cado, Duke of Cornwall. After that 

 Winwaloe had made his monastic establishments in Armorica, 

 we are told that he came to Britain to see the monasteries there. 

 Now we have evidence of his activity in the Cornish Landewed- 

 nack, in Gunwaloe also. In East Cornwall there is a belt of 

 foundations of himself and his brothers. Tresmere and Tremaine 

 are dedicated to him, Lewaniek to his brother Winnoc, and 

 Jacobstowe to his other brother, James. 



Flodoard, the French chronicler, says that between 900 and 

 940, a deadly conflict ensued on the marches of Brittany, that is 

 to say in the districts of Eennes and Nantes, between the 

 Bretons and the Normans, and that many of the inhabitants in 

 despair departed the country and crossed the sea. 



He does not tell us their destination, but we learn that 

 Mathuedoi Count of Poher fled to Athelstan along with a great 

 number of refugee Bretons, and he took with him his son, Alan, 

 afterwards known as Barbetorte, who was Athelstan's godson. 

 This comes to us from the Nantes Chronicle under date 919 or 

 920. Athelstan was not king at the time, and it was not till 926 

 that Howel, king of the West Welsh, or Damnonians, made his 

 submission after defeat. That Athelstan should have planted 

 the emigrants from Brittany in Cornwall before that date is not 

 possible. After 936, he may have done it when he traversed 

 the peninsula to the Land's End. 



Now 1 think that we have some indications of a settlement 

 of these Bretons from the Marches in the peninsula, for certain 

 saints of purely local interest have been intruded there ; S. 

 Moderan of Moran, S. Merriadoc of Camborne, and 8. Corentin 

 of Cury. 



The disappearance of the names of Celtic Saints from Devon, 

 to which I have already alluded,, was due to one or two causes. 

 In the first place, when the Saxon thanes settled down on the 

 land and wrested their churches from the Britons, they did not 



