361:, subtitled 'The Story of Lammana (Looe Island),' dedicated to Prior Helyas, the first documented incumbent of the priory in c. 1200, 'and All His Predecessors.' Using a wide range of historical documents, from Episcopal Registers, Close and Pipe Rolls, Deeds, Feudal Aids, and Charters, Lewis traced the medieval history of Lammana from the mid-12th century to the
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Glastonbury Abbey, from c. 1144 to 1290. A local legend of unknown antiquity stated that 'in ancient times, Joseph of Arimathea, the rich mam of the Gospels, was a tin merchant who used to visit Britain in order to purchase tin. On one such visit, he brought his young nephew with him. Whilst
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Lewis was involved in two campaigns of excavations at
Lammana in October 1935 and September 1936. The three day excavation in 1935 was personally financed by Lewis, C.B. Willcocks, F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., and Croft Andrew, and confirmed the exact location of the mainland chapel of the Priory of Lammana.
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In 1905 Lewis was appointed as an assistant chaplain to the South
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Church. In a letter to W.H. Paynter, recorder of the Looe O.C.S., Croft Andrew states that: 'When he took up the living at
Talland, I told him the story of the legend of Lammana, which he afterwards developed into his booklets
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Excavations carried out the following year in 1936 were conducted over three weeks, and recovered a wide range of pottery finds, including Samian ware, ridge tiles and roof slates, wall plaster, animal bones and human remains.
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Dorothy in October 1951, Lewis returned to the mainland and retired to No. 4, Regent Terrace, Penzance. On 28 March 1957, after suffering from a bronchial illness, Lewis passed away aged 77, at the
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Sunlight Soap products, produced in the British West African colonies. The letter from Lord Leverhulme's secretary, dated 27 January 1925, expressed his regret that he was unable to donate funds to the Church.
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and West Africa. Bishop
Walmsley occasionally paid the Lewis' flying visits 'when he was up in Oxford for a gaudy at his old college.' Sometimes he would stay with them at their 'little Cornish cottage on the moors.'
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After graduating from the Leeds Clergy School, Lewis was ordained as a deacon at St Asaph's
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province, Canada. The diocese of Qu'Appelle was established in 1884 to serve a thriving network of commercial trails leading across the
Canadian prairies.
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Henry Ardern Lewis was born in September 1879 at Worcester His father, Henry Ardern Lewis, M.A., (Snr.) was Vicar of
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tinners, the boy Jesus played on the beach of Looe Island until his uncles return.'
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as chaplain to Bishop John Walmsley. The two men had first met aboard HMS
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St Martin's, St Helen's and Tean (Iseles of Scilly) in legend and history
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John Walmsley, Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone, A Memoir for His Friends
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John Walmsley, Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone, A Memoir for His Friends
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to it so that it can be listed with similar articles.
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Joseph went ashore to the mainland to trade with the
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750:, Cornish Archaeology No. 33, 1994, pp. 96-129
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305:of St Michael of Lammana was owned by the
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188:West Africa
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371:ab antiquo
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349:Ab Antiquo
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