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 ST. GERMOE'S— GODOLPHIN HALL height. Leland mentions this " chair," and also a St. Germoc's Well, which has gone. W. C. Borlase suggests that the " chair " may have been an altar-tomb, and the suggestion is a good one. This church has specially rich communion-plate, the gift of Lord Godolphin. Gerrans (2 m. N.E. of St. Mawes) preserves the name of Geraint or Gerennius, traces of whose castle remain at Dingerein. This is generally thought to be the Geraint who married Enid, and who died fighting against the Saxons at Langport ; but the book of Llandaft" tells us that the Welsh St. Teilo visited Gerennius at Dingerein, and adminis- tered extreme unction to him on his deathbed — a tradition that hardly tallies with death on a Somerset battlefield. But in dealing with the name of Geraint, we must always remember that there is more than one Richmond in the field. Legend further says that the remains of this Geraint were taken across Gerrans Bay in a golden boat with silver oars, and laid to rest beneath the cairn known as Veryan or Carne Beacon. Search has been made here, with some hope of discovering this golden vessel ; a kistvaen and bones were found, but nothing else. iS^. Gliivias. (See Penryn.) Glynn, close to Bodmin Road Station, is the picturesque seat of Lord Vivian, formerly a seat of the Glynns. The name, as with the Glynns of Ireland, is the same word as glen. Godolphin Hall (5 m. N.W. of Helston) H 113