54 THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORIfWALL. 



1. The seal is not described, and no impression of it 

 appears to he ohtainahle. Prohahly it displayed a 

 figure of St. Michael, Archangel. 



St. MICHAEL de LAMMANA on Looe Island, Talland. 



The name Lan-manach, Monks' enclosure, is descrip- 

 tive — like the names Manaccan and Bod-manach 

 (Bodmin) — of an old monastic site. The religious 

 house, with its chapel, on Looe Island was a ceU 

 and chantry belonging to St. Mary's Abbey, Glaston- 

 bury, Somerset. It probably had no separate seal. 



St. NICHOLAS'S Priory, TEESCOE Island, SCILLY. This 

 minor Abbey was a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of 

 St. Mary the Virgin, and St. Eumon the Bishop, at 

 Tavistock,* Devon. There may also have been an 

 Oratory belonging to it on St. Mary's Isle — for the 

 names Holy Yale and Carn Friars, or Carn Prior, 

 occur there. The Prior, moreover, was sometimes 

 described as of St. Mary's, as that Island also 

 pertained to Tavistock. The Abbey and the Monks of 

 Scilly enjoyed amongst other privileges the right to 

 certain sorts of wreckage. Probably Tresco Abbey 

 had no separate seal, unless it was allowed more 

 independence than was granted to other cells. 



SEALS OE COLLEGES, 

 Collegiate & Pbebendal Churches, Archpresbtteries & Deaneries. 

 Reference has been made, under Priories, to certain Colleges 

 of Secular Canons which were changed into Monasteries, or into 

 Cells, for Regulars. Some, however, were not so altered and 

 others were subsequently founded. These latter then, with their 

 seals, have yet to be described. In some respects such Colleges 

 of Secular Canons resembled the old Cathedral establishments 

 — in framing their rules Cathedral statutes being taken as a 

 guide. They were governed strictly. 



As Hooker (Eccl : Polity, Book YII) states that in each 

 Diocese "the Bishop had under him, to direct Deacons, his 

 Archdeacon, so termed albeit himself a Presbyter, and for the 

 guidance of Presbyters one of the self-same order with them, 



* See fine Seal of Tavistock Abbey in Oliver's Men .- (Plate). 



II 



