THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORNWALL. 49 



should anything be sealed with the said seal without the special 

 consent of the Provost or his deputy, and a majority of the 

 senior members of the chapter. In 1 435 the Provost and Chap- 

 ter ordained that at the end of every year all monies belonging 

 to the community should be placed in a chest with three keys, 

 which chest was further described as being that " in which the 

 coUege seal is kept." They also decreed that annually on the 

 morrow of the feast of All Saints, (2nd. Nov.), there should be 

 elected " the keepers of two keys of the common chest aforesaid 

 of three keys." 



SEALS OF PRIORIES. 



BODMIN, otherwise Petrockstow.* (Dedication, St. Mary 

 the Virgin and St. Petrock, Confessor). This Priory, originally 

 Benedictine, afterward Augustinian, had a common seal in use 

 in 1347, and probably earlier. 



The following impressions of seals belonging to this house are 

 known : — 



1. Seal of Priory f attached to the surrender, in the 

 Augumentation Office, &c. Described and figured by 



* See Oliver (Mon. Add. Sup. 1854, p. 1), and Carne (R. I. of C. J., Vol. 2, 

 p. 200). Also Michell, who quotes Anglo-Saxon Homily, (Hist: of St. Neot's, 

 p. 153), concerning locality of Petrockstow. 



t The Priory which stood at the east end of Bodmin having long since been 

 fcuppressed, a U3W one at the west end has been formed. For this I am told, a 

 seal similar, in design, to the old one is now being made at Pome (see " Addenda.") 



The first modern Prior is Father Felix Menchini, Canon Regular Lateran. 



Bodmin Priory Seal is not quite accurately figured and described by Oliver 

 and those who have followed him, as is evident from an examination of a wax 

 impression preserved at Duporth. 



In the Mouasticon the following details are thus given in error. 



The Crook of St. Petrock's Prioral Staff is shown plain and turned outward. 



The three s.almon, of the Priory Arms, have their heads to the sinister. 



The names under the efiigies .are stated to be S. Marie .and S. Petro. 



The border legend is made to contain the words Prioi-atus (in full) and sante. 



The seal, on the contrary, displays St. Petrock's crook enriched and turned 

 imvard. 



Fishes heads to dexter. 



Names under effigies 8. Maria &tq.A (apparently) S. Petrocus. 



lu the border legend, if Prioratus be the word intended it is as short as 

 this : — I'rlus, and the other word is either Sancte (for Sanctse) or Sanctis 

 (for Sanctissimse) . In the impression the letters are not sharply defined. 



The second word of the legend, given as coie, seems to be meant for co'e or 

 some abbreviation of commune (agreeing with Sigillum). 



The common seal of the Priory is larger and more elaborate than its picture 

 in the Monasticon. It measui'es nearly three inches in length by two in breadth. 



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