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He was born in Cornwall, between the Tamar and Lyner. 



His mother was Gwen, daughter of Gynyr, of Caer G-aweh, 

 and sister of Non, mother of S. David. It is certainly remark- 

 able that it is precisely in this neighbourhood, that we find 

 the great sanctuary and extensive parish of Altarnon. If Non 

 were there, she must have been very near to her sister Glwen. 



His father, so says the "Life,'' was a man of war, but 

 Cuby was sent early to school to be brought up to the peaceable 

 avocation of a Saint. 



At the age of twenty-seven Cuby went to Jerusalem, and 

 on his way home, so says the story, he was ordained Bishop, by 

 Hilary of Poitiers, and on the strength of this statement he is 

 entered in some lists as Eegionary Bishop of Poitiers. But 8. 

 Hilary died in 369, more than a century and a half before. The 

 mistake arose through confounding Hilary with Elian, Cuby's 

 friend and companion. We have no reason to believe that 

 Cuby ever was a bishop. 



On Cuby's return to Cornwall, "he was asked whether he 

 would be King of the Cornishmen ? — but he would not accept the 

 power of the present world." The period was a troubled one, 

 Melyan the Prince had been murdered by Eivold, whom Leland 

 calls "invasor Cornubise," and Cuby left the peninsula for 

 Edelygion, in Q-went. 



The Life, which is concerned only with Cuby's acts in Wales, 

 passes over the whole of his doings in Cornwall, but he must 

 have been there some of the "fifty years" that he was with 

 Elian who is transformed into S. Hilary. 



His principal Cornish settlement was near Tregony, at that 

 time a place of importance, for " the tide then flowed far above 

 the town, bringing merchant vessels to the very base of the 

 Castle-hill ; and the main street of the town sloped down to a 

 quay, whence the mineral treasures of the central mining district 

 were exported. Tregony was at that time one of the most 

 thriving and populous towns west of Exeter."* 



Here he had a Sanctuary, which implies the establishment 

 of an ecclesiastical tribe. Within a walk was Dingerein, the 



*Eiev. J. Adams "Chronicles of Cornish Saints" in Journal of the E. Inst. 

 of Cornwall for 1867. 



