356 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



Meubred is represented in one of the windows of S. Neot 

 wearing a brass cap or yellow cap on his head, in his left hand 

 a short staff, in his right he carries his head. The inscription 

 is " Sancte Maberde ora pro nobis." 



His feast at Cardinham is on the Thursday before Pentecost. 



The name occurs on an inscribed stone at Mobratt, " Clotuai 



MOBRATTI." 



S. Michael, Archangel. 



The first .supposed apparition of 8. Michael was on Monte 

 Gargano, in or about 492. 



In or about 710, according to William of Worcester, a 

 second apparition took place on the Tumba in Cornwall. This 

 Tumba was also called the Hore rock in the wood; " et fuerunt 

 tam boscus quam prata et terra arabilis inter dictum montem et 

 insulas Syllye, et fuerunt 140 ecclesise parochiales inter istum 

 montem et Sylly submersse .... predictus locus spacissima primo 

 claudebatur sylva, et oceano miliaribus distans sex, aptissimam 

 prebens latebram ferarum, in quo loco olim comperimus 

 monachos domino servientes." Hore is Azr, the high rock. 



He says that the feast of the apparition on S. Michael's 

 Mount was celebrated on October 16. Nicholas Roscarrock says 

 on 29 September, "Dedication of S. Michael's Mount in 

 Cornwall." This, however, is a reduplication of the pretended 

 apparition on Mont Saint Michael in Normandy, which took place, 

 according to the legend, when Aubert was Bishop of Avranches, 

 who was consecrated in 708. And October 16 is obseived in the 

 Grallican church in commemoration of this reputed apparition. 



It may confidently be asserted that no churches were 

 dedicated to the Archchangel in Britain before the beginning of 

 the 8th century. In the Brut y Tywysogion it is stated that 

 between 710 and 720, "a church of Llanfihangel was conse- 

 crated;" and in the Brut y Saeson it is said, "in 717 was 

 consecrated a church of Michael." This was so new an event as 

 to demand recognition by the annalist. The motive cause for an 

 outburst of devotion to the Archangel was the rumour that spread 

 throughout Britain and Graul, of the apparition on the Monte 



