Letters U, V, W, and St. Ives (Vol. vii., p. 39.).—Is St. Ives by any possibility connected with St. Jue's, St. Jew's, or St. Jude's? Jve's and Iue's must have been undistinguishable in the ancient confusion of J and I, V and U. If I am here displaying ignorance, I ask, What is the legend of St. Ives?
W. Fraser.
Tor-Mohun.
[St. Ives is named from Iä, who was one of the missionary band that accompanied St. Kiaran, alias Piran, from Ireland in the fifth century. The Cornish have consecrated almost all their towns to the memory of these Irish saints: "witness," says Camden, "St. Burian, St. Ives, St. Columb, St. Mewan, St. Erben, St. Eval, St. Wenn, and St. Enedor." It appears that these missionaries landed in Cornwall at Pendinas, hill-head, now called St. Ives; for in the Legend of St. Ives, contained in Nova Legenda Angliæ, we read that "Tewdor was king at that time, and had a palace at Pendinas; and that Dinan, a greate lord of Cornwall, at the request of St. Iä, built a church at the same place." See Butler's Lives, March 5th; and Haslam's Perranzabuloe, p. 55.]
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THE ORKNEY ISLANDS IN PAWN.
(Vol. vii., p. 105.)
It gives me much pleasure to be enabled to inform your correspondent kirkwallensis that there is no fear of our losing these islands in the manner suggested by him, they having been renounced by Denmark nearly four hundred years ago, as will be seen from the following sketch.