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Q-lwys, King of Gwent, consequently brother of Gwynllwy of 

 Newport. By son is probably meant grandson, and we may 

 conjecture that this Clement was the leader of the Gwentian 

 party united with the horde of Irish and Brecknockians who 

 burst upon North Cornwall, and took possession of it, about 520. 

 In the deanery of Powder is the church and parish of S. 

 Clement, near Truro ; the ancient manor of Moresc is comprised 

 in it, and it contains a site of a church of uncertain dedication, 

 Lanbessow. S. Clement's is, however, quite out of the district 

 occupied by the colony from Gwent, and it is more probable that 

 it received its dedication to the Pope and Martyr. Of the 

 founder we know nothing. 



S. Clement's day is November 23. 



The church of Powderham, in Devon, is also dedicated to 

 S. Clement. 



The chapel of Porth-Enys or Mousehole, in S. Paul's 

 parish, was dedicated to S. Clement ; it was situate on a little 

 island. 



S. Clethee, Bishop, Confessor. 



Clether is the same as Cledog, son of Clydwyn, and a 

 grandson of Brychan. Clydwyn fought the Irish Picts, who 

 occupied Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen, though himself partly 

 Irish by descent. ' Still that was never of much consideration 

 among Celts when it came to be a question of self aggrandise- 

 ment. 



In the Life of S. Brynach is mentioned a certain Lord of 

 a district in Pembrokeshire or Carmarthen named Clechre, 

 surnamed the aged, who feared God. This was precisely the 

 district seized on by Clydwyn, when he drove out the Picts, and 

 he may have given it to his son, who would be this very Clechre, 

 but who at the time when Brynach had anything to do with him 

 was certainly not aged, as he was nephew of Brynach, who had 

 married Cledog' s father's sister. But Clechre may have acquired 

 the title later. 



Brynach had come into the country, and squatted in a valley 

 and lighted a fire. In the morning Clechre saw the rising 

 column of smoke, and he summoned his twenty sons, and they 



