Thenceforth until 1536 it remained a Bridgettine nunnery. After the suppression of the monasteries several grants were made of it for terms of years. Eventually Queen Elizabeth sold it to Robert, Earl of Salisbury, by whose son, the second earl, it was conveyed to Sir Francis Basset. By his son, John Basset, it was sold in 1659 to Colonel St. Aubyn. Since that time it has remained in the St. Aubyn family, its present owner and occupier being General John Townshend St. Aubyn, second Lord St. Levan. With its religious history alone are we here concerned. That the Mount was the home of a Celtic religious community in pre-Norman times hardly admits of doubt. As we have shown, there was some strong bond of attachment between it and the Meneage, a bond which, though weakened and attenuated, was not completely sundered until the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century. The main proposition here advanced is that the Mount was at a remote period, probably as early as the days of St. Cadoc, the focus of Celtic religious activity for the greater part, if not for the whole, of the Lizard peninsula. ----- Footnote 112: Archæologia, LIX (2), 281 _et seq._ Footnote 113: Cott. MS. Vesp. A. XIV. Footnote 114: The name survived until the Cornish language was obsolete. Boson (1702) uses it. Footnote 115: See dispensation granted by Thomas (Cranmer) to John Arscott, archpriest of St. Michael _de Monte Tumba Exoniensis diocesis_ (_Monasticon_, p. 30). Footnote 116: The statue of the Blessed Virgin in the parish church of Mont St. Michel, known as the black virgin, also bears the name of Notre Dame de Mont Tombe and the small island in the bay about two miles from Mont St. Michel is called Tombelaine. Tumba (_twmp_ in Welsh from Latin _tumulus_) and Tombelaine (the Teutonic diminutive of Tumba) are probably derived from the prehistoric remains of which there is now no trace. Footnote 117: _Les Noms des Saints bretons_, p. 5. Footnote 118: Dan. x. 13, 21; xii. 1; Rev. xii. 7. Footnote 119: See appendix, p. 172. Footnote 120: _Ibid._, p. 173. Footnote 121: _Norman Conquest_, pp. 766, 767. Footnote 122: _Genealogist, N.S._, XVII, 2. Footnote 123: Chan. inq. p.m., 12 Edw. II, No 16. Footnote 124: De Banco, 12 Henry VI, Hilary, m. 443. Footnote 125: Oliver, _Monasticon_, p. 414. Footnote 126: Feudal Aids, 1303, 1306, etc. Footnote 127: Loth, _Vie de Saint Samson_, p. 15. Footnote 128: Anmaneth may be an Anglicised form of An-manegh (cf. Carnyorth and Respeth for Carnyorgh and Respegh), but it is more likely that Amaneth is an adjectival form, viz. Manéghek or Menaghek, which became successively Menéhek, Meneck, Menek, Meneage (cf. _infra_ Trevanaek). I am indebted to Mr. Henry Jenner for this suggestion and for some other notes on the derivation of Cornish place-names. Footnote 129: See appendix, p. 175.