Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1851

Specimens of Foreign English

By BERIAH BOTFIELD. (Norton Hall)

In the interesting and amusing volume of *Rambles beyond Railways*, M. W. Wilkie Collins has attributed the church of St. Cleer in Cornwall, with its Well and ruined Oratory, to St. Clare, the heroic Virgin of Assisi; but in the elegant and useful *Calendar of the Anglican Church*, the same church is ascribed to St. Clair, the Martyr of Rouen. My own impression is, that the latter is correct; but I note the circumstance, that some of your readers better informed than myself, may be enabled to answer the Query, which is the right ascription? When Mr. Collins alluded to the fate of Bishop Hippo,…

Topics: Victorian Literature, Religious History, Historical Legends

Locations: St. Cleer, Cornwall, Assisi, Rouen