/)8 THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OP COENWALL. 



Three were placed at the east walls of Chancel and 

 Transepts, and a place for the fourth was found by 

 ascending to the first floor of the massive tower. 

 There a^gainst the east wall it was erected ; a little 

 window over it, opening just above the ridge of the 

 nave roof. See Oliver (Mon : p. 66) ; Street (Some 

 account of St. Michael Penkivel Church. Transac- 

 tions of Brit : Architects), and JR. I. of C. Jl. (vol. 1 . 

 p. 33). 

 The Collegiate Church or Archpresbytery of St. Michael 

 Penkivel probably did not possess a seal. 



St. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. The Priory and its Seal have been 



already noticed. The church of the Mount also 



included an Archpresbytery, which was afterwards 



described as a foundation which provided that three 



"prysts" should celebrate in a chapel there, one of 



them being named the "A.rche pryst." See Oliver 



(Mon : p. 488). It is not to be supposed that these, 



as a College, had an official or corporate seal. 



Many other CHANTEIES were founded in the various parish 



churches, and in certain chapels (such as that of St. Thomas 



the Martyr in Bodmin churchyard), besides those already named. 



None of them, however, require further notice here, as they 



were in no way connected with ecclesiastical seals. See Oliver 



(Mon : pp. 472, 483, 488). 



BUEIAN, OR EaLOSBERRIE. (Dedication, St. Buriana,' 

 Virgin). This was a Poyal Peculiar Collegiate 

 Church and Deanery, of considerable importance. 

 It is said that the patron saint came from Ireland, 

 founded an Oratory, and died at this place, which is 

 not far from the Land's End. It is added that King 

 Athelstan having left Burian for the purpose of 

 subjugating the Scilly Isles, made "ex vote," on 

 safely and successfully returning, a College where 

 the Oratory was. The clergy of the College, who 

 may at one time have been as many as seven, served 

 the churches of St. Burian, St. Sennen, and St. 

 Levan. After a while the lands were alienated, the 

 college buildings fell into decay, and such tithes as 



