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ST. KEVERNE— ST. KEYNE which he returned to his cell. It is significant that Celtic tradition never hesitated to tell such tales of its saints. St. Just evidently gave his brother-saint a good run, for the stones that Keverne threw lay in a field near Germoe till the last century, when they were broken up to mend the roads, and that field still bears the name of Tremen-keverne, " the three stones of Keverne ". Curiously enough, these stones were of a kind of iron gritstone, common enough to Crowza Downs, but alien to this part where they lay. St. Kew (5 m. N. of Wadebridge) has a church of rare beauty, dating from the fifteenth century, but carefully restored in 1883. The exquisite glass is said to have been removed from Bodmin Priory at its dissolution ; one window represents the Passion ; another, dis- playing the Jesse tree, is imperfect. A wild boar, supposed to .be imaged on one of the windows, is said to have once infested the neighbourhood. It is not quite certain who Kew was ; Mr. Baring-Gould says Docwin, whom he identifies with Cyngar of the Somer- set Congresbury ; W. C. Borlase suggests the Welsh Ciwa. The parish was formerly named Lanow. Miss Braddon has visited this spot frequently, and drawn some of its scenes in her fiction. St. Keyne (2 m. S. of Liskeard Station) has obtained wider fame than most Cornish parishes, owing to the ballad Southey wrote with relation to the holy well. Keyne is 143