446 CORNISH DEDI0ATION8. 



To these may be added, 4, Anne, servant and companion of 

 Madrun or S. Materiana, also reputed a saint. 



Some authorities make Anne, daughter of Uthyr Pendragon, 

 to have been the mother of Grynyr of Caer Gawch, consequently 

 the wife of Cedig, son of Ceredig of Cardigan,! and afterwards 

 wife of Amwn Dhu, and mother of S. Samson. Another makes 

 her wife first to Amwn, and then the mother of Gynyr.J 



Another authority§ makes Anne, daughter of Mewrig ap 

 Tewdrig, the wife of Amwn ; and the same says that the wife 

 of Gynyr was Anne, daughter of Vortimer. || 



It is clear that there has been confusion between three 

 Annes, and that Cedig married Anne, daughter of Uthyr 

 Pendragon, and had a son G-ynyr, who married another Anne, 

 daughter of Vortimer, and that she was entirely distinct from 

 the Anne who was the wife of Amwn Dhu, who certainly was 

 the daughter of Mewrig. Indeed Amwn's brothers married 

 sisters of this Anne, daughters of the same Grlamorgan prince. 



With regard to the fourth Anne, she was warmly attached 

 to Madrun, the wife of Ynyr Grwent, and she was servant to 

 her. After the death of Ynyr when Madrun retired from the 

 world, Anne did the same. 



The only Annes likely to have a cult in Cornwall would be 

 this latterU), the wife of Gynyr(3), and(2) the mother of S. Samson. 

 Madrun is the Materiana of Minster and Tintagel, and doubtless 

 her faithful maid Anne came with her to Cornwall. Whether 

 the Holy Well at Whitstone be hers cannot be decided, the 

 distance from Minster is about eleven miles. A far more 

 important Anne was the mother of S. Samson, but she never 

 was in Cornwall, though it is possible that religious establish- 

 ments, there, may have been affilia.ted to her monastery in South 

 Wales. 



What we know of S. Anne*^) is derived from the lives of S. 

 Samson, and our best authority is the First Life, written in the 

 7th century, published by Mabillon in the Acta SS. Ord. S. 

 Benedicti, Saec, I. p. 165; and by the BoUandists (July 6). In 



t Myvrian Arch., p. 433 ; lolo MSS, p. 505. 

 j lolo MSS, p. 545. 

 § lolo, p. 684. 

 II Ibid, p. 530. 



