That this parish was called Davidstow from St. David, the titular
saint of the Welsh, I make no question; for I have never heard that
the holy King David was ever enlisted for the patron of a Christian
church. I shall say no more of St. David, than that he was uncle to
King Arthur, and therefore it is not wonderful that this church should
be dedicated to him; and that after he had attained the age of a
hundred and forty-six years he died at his bishopric of Menevia, in
Wales, since called from him St. David’s, A.D. 642.