The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . , from the spotwhere they before were, and placed them under an altarerected in the church of Croyland in honour of Saint informs us, that, in more peaceful times, the remainswere ultimately returned to Saint Neots monastery. Whenhe visited that place, however, early in the sixteenth century,he was not shewn the remains; but he mentions havingseen the interior tunic of Saint Neot, made of hair clothin
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . , from the spotwhere they before were, and placed them under an altarerected in the church of Croyland in honour of Saint informs us, that, in more peaceful times, the remainswere ultimately returned to Saint Neots monastery. Whenhe visited that place, however, early in the sixteenth century,he was not shewn the remains; but he mentions havingseen the interior tunic of Saint Neot, made of hair clothin the Irish manner; and the comb of Saint Neot, madeof a small bone two finders in breadth, the teeth of fish. SAINT NEOts and EYNESBURY. being inserted so as to give it the appearance of the jaw ofthe pike. Such is the most probable account of the life of SaintNeot, and of the transfer of his body from Cornwall to theHuntingdonshire monastery. In the Cornish church, dedi-cated to this saint, is a tablet containing the followingcurious verses, in which these events are detailed with themost glaring anachronisms, and, (as is allowed on all hands),with a singular mixture of truth and falsehood : it is con-jectured that they were written a short time before thereformation :— Hie olim noti jacuire relict a Neoti, Nunc jirceter cineres nil supei-esse vides; Tempus in hue fossa caine cosumpsit et ossa;Nomen perpttuum Sancte NeotE tumn ! Consuming time Neotus flesh And bones to dust translated,A sacred tomb this dust enclosed Which now is flesh and bones, and dust, and tomb, Thro tract of time be Neats fame remains with us. Which nere shall be forgotten;Whose father was a Sa
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