THE COMMON SEALS OF CORNWALL. 293 
is said to be in the possession of Dr. Jewell of Mylor, but my 
enquiries have failed to ascertain whether that is so or not. As 
figured by Lysons [‘‘ Cornwall,” cxxxvi] it is small, circular, bears 
as a device the arms of the borough, a pomegranate seeded, slipped, 
and leaved; and the legend: SIGIL. COM. BURGO. DE. 
TRIGONI. 
TRURO. 
BorouGcH.—Truro is an ancient borough, which, according to 
the Visitation of 1574, Harl. MSS 1079, was incorporated by 
Raynold Earl of Cornwall, base son to Henry I, formerly by 
Richard Lucy, als Lucam. Its first royal charter is said to have 
been given by Henry II, and it has returned members to Par- 
liament ever since the 23rd Edward I. The present seal is circu- 
lar, an inch in diameter and bears simply the arms of the borough 
—a three-masted ship of war on the waves, with a pennon of 
St. George flying from each mast and sail set on the main. In 
the water two fishes swimming to right one above the other—not as 
on the Lostwithiel seal, one in line with the other. The seal bears 
no legend, in this respect resembling that of Launceston; but an 
older and larger seal with the same device was inscribed SIGILLV 
COMMVNITATIS DE TRVRO. 
Customs.—An old customs seal of Truro bears a crowned 
thistle with a feather on each side. Legend SIG TRVRO. MEM. 
DE. PORTU PLYMOVTH. 
DomInIcAN CONVENT.—The matrix of the seal of the convent 
of Dominican friars was found in 1842 in the garden of the 
vicarage house of Sturry, near Canterbury; and is now in the 
Museum of the Royal Cornwall Institution. It is a pointed oval 
113+ 1,2, and represents the Saviour in the act of teaching and 
blessing. Legend: * S’ gVENT’ FRATRV P’DICATOR’ DE 
TRIVERV. 
TYWARDREATH. 
Priory.-—Oliver [“ Monasticon,” p. 36] mentions four seals of 
St. Andrews Priory at Tywardreath. First: St. Andrew bare- 
headed, holding staff surmounted with plain cross, in right hand 
—hbook in left.—Legend: SIGILLVM: SCI: ANDREE. Second: 
St. Andrew erect, long saltire cross in right hand; book in left. 
