NOTES ON INSCRIBED STONES IN CORNWALL. 61 
fractures has taken place, and that the inscription is still complete, 
it must be inferred that a small flat projection upon the face of 
the block was in the first instance deemed sufficient for a legend 
unusually brief. We then have to regard the monument as that 
“OF CLOTUALUS (AND) OF MOGRATTUS ”—two persons ;* 
or more probably as that “OF CLOTUALUS MOGRATTUS”— 
one person. But interpretations of a different kind also suggest 
themselves. It is rare to find on a monument of this class, two 
names assigned to the deceased.t The testimony of the majority of 
Inscribed Stones leads us rather to look upon the second name as 
that of his father who is not interred with him. The formula 
generally adopted supplies at least the additional word “filius” in 
one of its cases, so that we should expect to find “Clotuali fil. : 
Mogratti,” or “Clotuali Mogratti fil.:” This last word perhaps 
has perished by the splitting-off of the surface, and the stone may 
have been erected “TO CLOTUALIS,” or in memory “OF 
CLOTUALUS, THE SON OF MOGRATTUS.” Dispensing 
with the word “ fil.:” again for a moment, we may still find that 
the rendering just given is not far from the correct one. For the 
second name, if it be a British compound-word, Latinized, may 
consist of a prefix, the equivalent of “fil.:”{ joined to the father’s 
* For associated names grouped upon a single stone, see the example at 
Cuby Church, Tregony, described by Dr. Barham, R. I. of C. Journal, Vol. 
II, p. 47. Compare also the St. Hilary stone, on which there is no special 
signification of a paternal name. 
+ Respecting the possession of a plurality of names see the Inscriptions 
found at the following places. Fardel (now in Brit. Mus.), and near Roboro’ 
Down. Devon; Langian, Wales; &c.; also these in Cornwall—St. Clements, 
St. Cubert, and St. Hilary (referred to above). In some of the instances the 
second name appears to be descriptive of the profession or occupation, e.g., 
Medicus, Faber; while in the case of that at St. Clements, so well known, 
Mr. Longueville Jones has pointed out that the first word (read as Isnioc) is 
in minuscule characters little resembling in style the lettering of the words 
that follow. It has therefore been conjectured that the original burial was 
that of Vitalis, son of Torricus, the preceding name (Isnioc) on the higher 
part of the stone having been subsequently cut, together with the panelled 
cross-dise at the top. Every other inscribed stone in Cornwall gives but one 
name to each person. 
+ This idea is deduced from a casual remark made to me by Rev. Dr. 
Bannister, author of the ‘“‘Glossary,” when I shewed the word to him. He may 
not desire to be held further responsible for such an explanation; but how- 
ever this may be, the theory receives support in some measure. See the 
examination further on concerning the derivation of the name. 
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