“If, traveller, thy happy spirit know That awful Fount whence living waters flow, Then hither come to draw: thy feet have found Amidst these rocks a place of holy ground.” _The Well of St. Morwenna._ [5] Breachan figures as a saint on a window in St. Neot’s church, called “The Young Women’s Window,” erected in 1529 at the cost of the maidens of the village. Mr. Baring-Gould says that “Brychan” lived in the fifth century, and that Morwenna was probably his grand-daughter. [6] According to Mr. Baring-Gould, this story is full of anachronisms, arising from the confusion of three different saints, Morwenna of Cornwall, Modwenna of Burton-on-Trent, and Monynna of Newry. [7] Compare Hawker’s poem “A Croon on Hennacliff.” [8] This prose description of Morwenstow church has its metrical counterpart in “Morwennæ Statio.” The poetry in stone has never been more beautifully expressed than by those strong and simple lines. [9] See Appendix A. [10] A mistake for “Tunnacomb.” See Appendix A. [11] See Appendix A_a_. [12] The water for baptisms at Morwenstow is always drawn from this well, which Hawker won for the glebe by a law-suit soon after his appointment to the living. [13] See Appendix A. [14] In Blight’s book on “Ancient Cornish Crosses,” etc., there is an engraving of the Morwenstow Piscina and a Hebrew altar, with a note by Hawker. [15] Among some unpublished MSS. of Hawker’s is the following verse, dated 1840:-- “Thus said the pious Pelican unto her thirsty Young, ‘Drink, drink! my desert children: be beautiful and strong. What tho’ it be the lifeblood from my veins ye drain away; Ye will grow and glide in glory, and for me, O let me die.’” [16] Hawker had a seal engraved with this pentacle. Compare the lines in his poem “Baal-Zephon.” “Oh for the Sigil! or the chanted spell! The pentacle that Demons know and dread.” In a letter to Miss Louisa Twining, Hawker writes: “The pentacle of Solomon, or five-pointed figure, was derived from his seal wherewith he ruled the genii. It was a sapphire, and it contained a hand _alive_ which grasped a small serpent, also alive. Through the bright gem both were visible, the hand and the ‘worm’ as of old they called it. When invoked by the king, the fingers moved and the serpent writhed and miracles were wrought by spirits which were vassals of the gem.... Because of this mystic Hand the pentacle or five-pointed (fingered) figure became the Sigil of Signomancy in the early ages.” [17] For an instance of its use in exorcism, see the “Botathen Ghost” story, p. 158. [18] “And Solomon built ... Baalath, and Tadmor in the Wilderness” (1 Kings ix. 17-18). [19] This screen was constructed by Mr. Hawker from the rescued remnants of an older screen, pieced together with ironwork. It has since been taken down, and the old carving placed in other parts of the church. [20] See Appendix A_b_.