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Britain, and [was] painted as a scholemaster." Probably Leland 

 saw him represented with his discij)les Tudy and Bodmael, and 

 holding his staff. 



From this chair, according to the Life, Mawes instructed his 

 disciples Tudy and Bodmael, and others who are not named. 

 "When they were not listening to his teaching or praying, they 

 were wont to assemble by the chair near the water, and go over 

 the instruction they had received, so as to engrave it deep on 

 their memories. They were, however, much disturbed by a 

 great seal that came up and stared at them, gamboled, and made 

 noises. And this came to the ears of Mawes. 



One day he was on his way to the chair, from his cell, when 

 he saw the seal, and immediately rushed at it, armed with a 

 stone. The brute took to the water at once, but when it rose, 

 Mawes hurled at it the stone, struck it, and it sank. The spot 

 where it rose was on a rock that stood up out of the water, now 

 called Blackrocks, and the stone he threw remained lodged on 

 the top. It was a notable cast, for the spot is nearer Pendennis 

 Point than S. Mawes' cell. This poor seal the saint was con- 

 vinced was an evil spirit — " a Tuthe," as the author of the Life 

 says the Britons called it. Li Breton this would be Tuz, and we 

 may find in the word the " Deuce," so commonly used in the west 

 of England as expressing a spirit of mischief and contrariety. 

 In fact, one of those genii of whom S. Augustine says, 

 " Dsemones quos Dusios Gralli nuncupant." 



According to Cornish tradition, after a while Mawes left 

 Cornwall and crossed over to Brittany, and we learn from his 

 biographer that he ai-rived in the island that has since borne his 

 name in the Brehat archipelago. Here he founded a monastery. 

 One day the fire had gone out, and Mawes sent his disciple 

 Bodmael across to the mainland when the tide was low to fetch 

 him some. Bodmael entered a cottage, when a woman consented 

 to give him red-hot coals if he would carry them in his lap. To 

 this he consented ; but as he was returning with the fire the tide 

 rose, and Mawes, to his dismay, saw that his pupil would be 

 engulfed. However, he prayed, and a rock rose under the 

 disciple, and as the tide lifted so did the rock, and when the tide 

 had ebbed, Bodmael came to the island uninjured, and the fire 

 unextinguished. 



