Chapter XXIII: PETROCSTOW, or Padstow, olim Loderic, or Laffenac, or

Adelston,[141] _in the deanry of_ Pydre.

MONASTERY DESTROYED. St. Petroc, a religious man born in Wales, but coming from Ireland, is said to have built a monastery on the north coast of Cornwall, about A.D. 520 and to have been there buried;[142] his body was afterward removed to Bodmin.

[Harl. MS. 6964. p. 77.――H. E.]