It will not surprise those who read this book to learn that its author spent some portion of the wakeful night which followed the reading of the paper in the composition of a simple liturgy to crown his friend’s achievement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. COINCIDENCE AND RESEMBLANCE 1 Often misleading. The Eucharist. Christian Passover a development of the Jewish and its origin to be sought in primitive Israel. Ancillary Christian Festivals. Direct and Collateral descent. St. Patrick’s fire. II. THE CELTS 18 Prehistoric Remains in Cornwall. Ligurians, Iberians, and Celts. No trace of Phœnicians. Celtic worship. The Druids. Fetich worship. Cornish crosses. III. CORNWALL AND BRITTANY 37 Dumnonian Exodus. Breton nobles in the Conqueror’s army. _Tristan and Iseult._ Henry the Eighth’s subsidy roll. Mystery and Morality Plays. IV. THE CELTIC CHRISTIANITY OF CORNWALL 50 Language. Isolation of Cornwall. Monasticism. Church Dedications. Easter and Tonsure controversies. V. THE MONASTERY-BISHOPRICS OF CORNWALL 58 Celtic Monasticism _sui generis_. Episcopacy. Gildas, Kenstec, and Plegmund. Athelstan. Bodmin Gospels. Lyfing. Leofric. See of Exeter. VI. EVOLUTION OF THE DIOCESAN BISHOPRIC 70 Episcopal manors in Domesday Book—their sources and their value. Three important holdings—Pawton, St. Germans, and Gerrans. Independent of each other. All of them sees of Celtic bishops. Kerrier and Penwith. VII. CORNISH SAINTS 90 Not topological or eponymous. St. Ia, St. Dennis, St. Allen, St. Paul, and St. Buryan. Lives of the Saints. Religion of the Cornish. VIII. ANCIENT RELIGIOUS HOUSES 104 Celtic or English? _Monasticon_ and Domesday Book examined. Conversion of Celtic monasteries to Norman establishments. St. Kew. Summary of results. IX. CORNISH HERMITS 122 St. Guron. The Three Brothers. St. Neot. Ogrin. Andrew Paugan. SS. Philip and Robert. Roger Godman. Cecilia and Lucy Moys. The Hermit of St. Teath. Margaret of Bodmin. Roche Rock. X. ST. MICHAEL’S MOUNT 141