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 CORNWALL Lynher, was a seat of the Earls of Devon, and was held for Charles in the Civil War, but soon surrendered. At one time it belonged to the Killigrews, and it is stated that a member of this family kept a wife in each of the towers of the four corners, each believing she was sole mistress. This is evidently a daring fible. Ince is a brick building, in a district where brick buildings are rare. St. Issey (4 m. W. of Wadebridge) was also sometimes called Nansant, or " holy valley " ; it is not quite so easy to interpret its present name. "Whose name is it that the parish of St. Issey bears ? " asks W. C. Borlase ; and he suggests that it may be the same as Elidius, corrupted to Liddy, Ide or Idgy, and he en- deavours to show that this Elidius was the same as the great Welsh Teilo. All this seems rather far-fetched. Might not Issey be the same dedication as St. Ives ? We have actual proof that St. Ives was at one time written St. lysse, and this certainly seems more likely than a derivation from Tcilo. But the matter must be regarded as dubious. Perhaps the name is a corruption of St. Itha. St. Issey has a re- stored church on an old foundation. About 2 miles S. of the village is St. Issey Beacon, affording a grand prospect. St. Ivc (4^ m. E. of Liskeard) must on no account be confused with the familiar St. Ives, or with the St. Ives of Huntingdonshire. It is pronounced Eve, and is most probably a dedication to the Breton St. Yves. This point 132