The _Association_, Sir Cloudesley's vessel, had struck at eight o'clock upon the Gilstones, a cluster of rocks of what are called the Western Isles, and in about two minutes went down with all on board save one. He clung to a piece of the wreck, and was swept on to the Hellweathers, where he remained for some time till rescued. The _Eagle_ and the _Romney_ were also lost with all hands. The _Firebrand_ was lost as well, but the captain and some of the crew were rescued. The _Phœnix_ ran ashore, but was got off again. The _Royal Anne_ was saved. So was the _S. George_ by the merest accident. She struck the same rock as the _Association_ and about the same time, but the wave which sank the admiral's ship floated the _S. George_ from the rocks. The body of Sir Cloudesley Shovel was picked up at Porth Hellick by a soldier and his wife, who gave it decent burial in the sand. It was afterwards conveyed at Lady Shovel's desire to Westminster Abbey and laid there. She rewarded the soldier with a pension for life. The diamond ring stolen from the body was sent to Lady Shovel by the thief, when he was dying. Finally, with its amount of sunshine, with its equable temperature, and its air charged with ozone, I believe Scilly will be the sanatorium of the future. NOTE.--Book to be consulted:-- TONKIN (J. C. and R. W.), _Guide to the Isles of Scilly_. Penzance, _n.d._ A capital little book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PLYMOUTH WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON PRINTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FOOTNOTES: Footnote 1: _Irish Nennius_, ed. Todd and Herbert (Dublin, 1848), p. 237. Footnote 2: Misses Couch were misled when they visited S. Mawes, and they give a photograph of a well which is not the holy well. The latter is among the houses opposite the post office, and had an arched entrance, now walled up. Footnote 3: MATTHEWS, _History of the Parishes of S. Ives, Lelant, Towednack, and Zennor_ (London, 1892), p. 40. Footnote 4: _Archæologia Cambrensis_, January, 1899. See also A. J. Langdon, "The Ornament of the Early Crosses of Cornwall," _Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall_, vol. x. (1890-1). Footnote 5: Not to be confounded with S. Clether of Clodock, in Herefordshire, son of Gwynnar, and from whom the poet Taliesin was descended. The invasion of Carmarthen by Dyfnwal from the north had much to do with Clether's departure. Footnote 6: Tremendous confusion has been made of his life, as he has been confounded with a S. Paternus, who was Bishop of Vannes in 462 or 465; and the Cornish Venedotia has been construed as Venettia, Vannes. Nearly a century intervened between the two saints. Footnote 7: _The Cornish Magazine_, 1899. Footnote 8: GUEST, _Mabinogion_, p. 227.