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Saint Ivo (also known as Ives) was a Cornish bishop and hermit and became the eponymous saint of St Ives Huntingdonshire. He appears in the historical sources in 1001/2 when a peasant allegedly found his coffin while ploughing at Slepe (later renamed St. Ives). The Abbot of Ramsey Eadnoth the Younger founded a monastery there as a daughter-house of Ramsey Abbey providing Slepe as well as part of Elsworth and Knapworth as endowment.