[36]. I am indebted to Professor Loth for the identification of these surnames.
[37]. Some further light would doubtless be thrown on the subject if the Camborne registers were searched for the children of the above marriages and for the burial of their parents. It is noteworthy that Carthew marriages were solemnised at Camborne in 1583 and 1588. They may have been, and probably were, those of John Carthowe’s children.
[38]. As late, however, as 1599 we meet with Bretons at Redruth, who contributed handsomely to the subsidy of that year. Six may be noted in the St. Ives district in 1571, but none in 1593 or after that date (Lay Subsidies, 87 (218)).
[39]. The trève is described by Dom Gougaud as a parochial subdivision still recognised in certain cantons of Brittany (Chrétientés, p. 124).
[40]. Loth’s Les Saints bretons, pp. 92, 93.
[41]. Peter, Old Cornish Drama, p. 34.
[42]. After the above was written, Mr. Thurstan Peter, President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, announced that under the ægis of that institution the Beunans Meriasek would be performed in the year 1915. The great war has necessarily caused the postponement of the enterprise.
[43]. Les Noms des Saints bretons, p. 143.
[44]. Loth, ibid., p. 124, n. 1.
[45]. Quoted by Dom Gougaud, Les Chrétientés celtiques, p. 82.