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The words as given in the Life are : " Ipse vero Eigalis, 

 domum propriam cum tota colonia et plebe universa, ad earn 

 pertinente, sancto viro et ejus monachis perpetualiter habendam 

 contradens, seque eorum humiliter commendans orationibus, in 

 pace quievit." 



Thenceforth, the Bishop of S. Brieuc became a sovereign 

 prince. 



The death of S. Brioc took place, at a very advanced age, in 

 515 ; it is said he was above ninety. At the time of his death 

 a monk, in his native land, saw him ascending a ladder to heaven. 

 He at once took boat, and arrived at the Breton monastery in 

 time to take part in his obsequies. He was at sea seven days. 

 The monk's name was Simanus. 



But, in conclusion, to return to his foundation in Cornwall. 



It is noticeable in the site of the church of S. Breock near 

 Wadebridge, that the river divides the ecclesiastical settlement, 

 — the land granted by Conan, — from the secular tribal land, of 

 which Pencarrow was the head. 



The site of the Llan is very lovely. A steep ascent from 

 the town of Wadebridge over a bleak and wind-swept height 

 leads to a sudden dip, and to a glen where are beautiful trees and 

 a large and interesting church planted close to a dancing rill that 

 flows under the church wall, so that the porch can be reached only 

 by crossing a bridge. The church itself has a peculiarity that 

 is instructive ; the tower stands at a distance from the perpen- 

 dicular body of the church with its nave, aisle and transepts, 

 like S. Wollas in Monmouthshire, but the intervening portion 

 which is earlier is not separated from the body of the church by 

 a wall as at S. Wollas. The church has, however, gone through 

 one of those disastrous "restorations" which have devasted 

 Cornwall, and there is no saying what was the original condition. 

 At S. Wollas, as at Q-lastonbury, such a piece of earlier church, 

 intervening between tower and nave, marks the site of the 

 original oratory of the saint, spared so long as it lasted, and only 

 rebuilt as a distinct member, when re-building was absolutely 

 necessary. It is perhaps possible that the ante-nave at 8. Breock 

 may be thus explained. 



