32 CHARTER, ST. LAWRENCE DE PONTEBOY. 



details, seems to suggest the inference that the seal may have been 

 copied from a more ancient matrix. The device, as will be seen 



Seal of the Hospital of St. Laurence of Penpoy, or Ponteboy, Bodmin. Original size. 



by the Avoodcut, is a figure of St. Laurence, holding a gridiron, 

 and the Book of the G-ospels, appropriate to his office of deacon. 

 A cusped and crocketed canopy appears over the figure, and be- 

 neath is a small distorted figure kneeling in prayer. The legend 

 is S+ SCI: LAVRENCII BODMONS DE : PENPOY.''' The name Pen- 

 poy, as Professor Babington has truly pointed out, has a much 

 more Cornish appearance than its form of Ponteboy,t in the Patent 

 of Queen Elizabeth. He expresses the hope, in which we fully 

 accord, that our Cornish friends may investigate the different 



* The name of tlie place, it will be observed, has a mark of contraction 

 over the last letter. It has been suggested that the word may perhaps be 

 read Bodmonensis, iii extenso. Mr. Smirke, however, proposes to read — 

 Bodmonis. — The name was written with very arbitrary variation in spelling. 

 The earliest form seems to have been Bodmon ; we find Bodman, and Bod- 

 minian, frequently, and also Bodenham, even at a late time.- — A. W. 



f Mr. Couch writes : " I have made enquiries for the word Penpoy, 

 v.-hich was afterwards Normanized into Pontebois ; but both names are now 

 dead." 



