44 THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF COBITWALL. 



The upper part of the field is occupied by an open book. Its 

 pages, ruled as with double columns of text, are headed HOLY 

 BIBLE — on each page one word. 



Below is the Chancellor's Armorial Shield ; displaying, for 

 PhiUpotts, " Grules a cross argent, between four swords erect of the 

 last, pomels and hilts or." The heraldic tinctures are not in- 

 dicated, but the cross is not left plain. The arms hare been 

 before described, being on his Archdeaconry seal. (See Plate.) 



SEALS OF THE EURAL DEANERIES. 



Eural Deaneries have existed in Cornwall from an early 

 period. 



Until lately they were eight* in number — four bounded by the 

 North coast, and four by the South. 



Commencing in the north-east and proceeding westward, they 

 were Trigg Major, Trigg Minor, Pyder, and Penwith (which 

 last included the promontories Cape Cornwall and Land's End, 

 also the Wolf Eoek and Scilly Isles). The southern, adjacent 

 to them, being East, West, Powder, and Kirrier (which last 

 included the Lizard Point.) 



In 1875 their boundaries were more or less altered to form 

 twelve f more convenient Deaneries — some of them reaching 

 from shore to shore, — their names being Stratton, Trigg Major, 

 Trigg Minor, Bodmin, Pyder, Powder, Carnmarth, Penwith, 

 East, West, St. AusteU, and Kerrier. 



It is not certain what seals were used in connection with the 

 old Deaneries, but the following records are interesting. 



In an agreement dated at the Exeter Consistory Court, 3 

 April, 1322, between certain parishioners residing at St, 

 Nighton's and their Vicar at St. Winnow, it is stated that both 

 parties were heard through proctors, the procuration of the peo- 

 ple being authenticated by the Seal of the Dean of West, \ the 

 procuration of the Vicar by the official seal of the Archdeacon. 



* See Wallis's Maps, pai-ticulars of which are sriven in Bibliotheca Cornub : 



II, 849-50. 



f See lago's Maps in Truro Dioc : Kalendars, also Bibliotheca Cornub : 



III. 1240. 



J Written in the original either as Westwenalschire or Westwevalschire. 

 Called in Pope Nicholas's Taxation, West-Wellshire. See copy of document 

 printed and annotated by Sir J. Maclean and Sir E. Smirke. — Arch -. Jl. vol. 

 125, p. 312. 



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