Taylor - Celtic Christianity of Cornwall

Thank you, Dominic! I noticed that the last part of footnote 2 is missing. Is it in the original resource?

As a very brief summary, this book was published in 1916 and was written by a priest from a parish in Cornwall (the Land at the extreme south west of England) who had a great interest in researching local history. especially church history, going back to its earliest days in Cornwall. It is a very detailed history of early Christianity and the Medieval period based on everything he could find and reasonably deduce. The early inhabitants of this part of England were Celts, as were the inhabitants of other parts of Britain such as Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and also north-western France (Brittany). There is a long history that is not given in much detail about how the Celts as early inhabitants of Britain were driven out of what is now England by the Saxon invasion which began in 428 AD. Their language was not English (which is a relatively modern language) but Gaelic, with distinct dialects then to the extent of being almost different languages now in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall.

The author was obviously quite a linguist as he quotes freely in French, Latin and Cornish Gaelic, often without translation to English.

The Table of Contents may be helpful:

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 Phoenicians. Celtic worship.
The Druids. Fetich worship. Cornish crosses.

III. CORNWALL AND BRITTANY 37

Dumnonian Exodus. Breton nobles in the Conqueror's army. Tristan and heult. 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. la, 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

Ictis. Dinsul. Mons Tumba. Cult of St. Michael. Pre- Norman origin of the monastery. Examination of
Charters and Domesday extracts. Identification of St. Michael's lands. The Meneage. William of Worcester.

Taylor, T. (n.d.). The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall.