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palace of his cousin Geraint II. It is possible also that lie had 

 a church at Veryan, the old name of which was Elerkey which 

 may be a corruption of Eglos-Cuby. But whether so or not he 

 had one, and a holy well likewise, at Duloe. At Exeter, in the 

 British town was a church, afterwards known as S. Cuthbert's, 

 which may have been a foundation of his, as is Cubert on the 

 North Coast of Cornwall, now also attributed to S. Cuthbert, 

 but where the parish feast, held on S. Cuby's day, testifies to 

 the earlier dedication. 



In Gwent, S. Cuby, with ten disciples, planted himself " in 

 a meadow," Etelic, the prince, sent to enquire who had settled 

 on his land without leave. The servant returning, said, " they 

 are monks." Etelic, says the biographer of the saint, at once 

 went to expel the intruders, but his horse fell under him and 

 died. Such an accident was quite sufficient to alarm a super- 

 stitious man ; he lived in deadly fear of the curses of these 

 all-powerful medicine-men or schamans, the Saints. Moreover, 

 on closer inquiry he learned that Cuby was a man highly 

 connected and with powerful relatives. It was not to the 

 interest of the chiefs of Gwent to quarrel with those of 

 Domnonia. He accordingly gave S. Cuby two pieces of land. 

 Mr. Adams in his notice of S. Cuby in the " E.I.C. Journal," 

 1867, thinks that Etelic was Prince of a portion of Cornwall, 

 and that the bits of land given him were Landeghe, now S. 

 Kea, and Tregony. But I cannot see this ; the pieces of land 

 were the sites of Llangyby and Llandaverguer. Llangyby is in 

 Monmouth, the other place may be Llandovery otherwise 

 Llandingat, in Carmarthen. Apparently S. Cuby was at the 

 Synod of Llandewy Brefi, and in its neighbourhood is the latter 

 church then founded by him. 



After a while Cuby crossed into Ireland, taking with him 

 his uncle Cyngar, who was very old and could no longer eat 

 solid food. He therefore kept for him a cow. The cow's calf 

 was stolen by Crubther Eintan, a chief, and the cow would not 

 yield her milk when the calf was away. Cuby prayed, and the 

 calf came bounding back ; it had dragged its rope and torn away 

 the bush to which it had been attached. 



Crubther made the place too hot for Cuby, and he was 

 obliged to leave. He and his disciples constructed a coracle, 



