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Laclocse. A scribe may accidentally err, but a succession of 

 scribes will hardly continue in the same error.*' 



We may consequently reject the identification with S. Cadoc, 

 and we must look for a female Saint for Ladock. I can but 

 offer a suggestion as to who S. Ladoca may be. I suspect that 

 the original name of the Church was Llan-ty-Coca; i.e. the Llan 

 or Sanctuary of Cuach, or Coca, the nurse or fostermother of 

 S. Kieran, and the organiser under him of his colleges for 

 females. See under Kewe. Ladock Feast is on the first Thursday 

 in January. In the Irish Calendars Cuach is marked on 

 January 8 ; but her name occurs again on June 6 and June 

 29, and again as the " Wolf girl " on April 29, 



S. Lam AN' A. 



Looe Island was probably a Cornish " Holy Isle " ; on it 

 certainly stood a chapel. It was a benefice called in Bishop 

 Grandisson's Registers ''Eectoria." It pertained to the cell of 

 St^ Lamana in Talland, subject to Glastonbury. St^ Lamana is 

 also mentioned in the taxation of Nicolas IV. Possibly Lamana 

 is a corruption of Llan Manacha, the Church or Sanctuary of the 

 Nuns. 



S. Lanty. 



Ecton in his "Thesaurus Eer. Eccl." 3rd ed. Lond., 1763 

 gives S. Lanty as patron of Lanteglos by Fowey, and Lanteglos 

 by Camelford. A blunder. Lanteglos means the Llan of the 

 Church. Lanteglos by Fowey is dedicated to S. Willow, the 

 other Lanteglos to S. Julitta. 



S. Levan, Priest, Confessor. 



S, Levan' s Church is in the district colonised by Irish settlers, 

 and he is not unknown to the Irish. 



* In Bishop Brantjngham's Register, 1390, occurs a concession of licence for 

 service in a chapel at Tregamedene " in Parochia Sancte Kyclodoce," apparently a 

 reduplication of the name under two forms of Kygve and I^adoca. 



