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VII.—Chronicles of Cornish Saints. 
VII.—S. CRANTOCK. 
By the REVEREND JOHN ADAMS, M.A., Vicar of Stockeross, Berks. 
Read at the Spring Meeting, May 18, 1872. 
F a history had been handed down of the introduction of 
Christianity into Britain, it would have told us that the chief 
agents in the work were certain native families, in which the seed 
of the Gospel had first taken root ; and that when the individual 
missionary from beyond the sea, or the little band of strangers 
who first scattered the seed, had done their work and gone to their 
rest, zealous teachers emanated from those few converted families, 
and proclaimed salvation far and wide to their countrymen. Such 
was certainly the character of the earliest missionary agency in 
the British Church. We know not who first brought the Gospel 
message to our shores; but we can point to a goodly company of 
native believers, who became, the heralds of that message; and 
the more the fragmentary records and traditions concerning them 
are investigated, the more apparent it becomes that they were for 
the most part either related to each other, or associated as fellow- 
labourers under the same Christian teachers. Thus, e.g., of the 
Saints whose Lives we have endeavoured to trace in previous 
Numbers of the Jowrnal, Samson and David were companions at 
the College of St. Illtyd; Constantine was a pupil of David at 
Menevia ; Cuby and David were cousins ; whilst Petrock, we have 
reason to conjecture, was the instrument of Constantine’s con- 
version, and an associate of Samson. © 
The holy man whose memoir we shall now attempt to compile, 
seems to have been related to David and Cuby, and to have been 
a link between the Welsh and Irish missionaries. He is called 
Cairnech by the Irish, and is styled, in their martyrologies, a 
