THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORNWALL. 61 



2. Seal mentioned by Oliver (Mon : p. 7). In form it 

 is similar to the preceding, but slightly larger. The 

 design is still more grotesque. The King with beard 

 and moustaches looks like a puppet. He is clad in 

 what is intended to represent a suit of plate armour, 

 but it more resembles brick- work set on end. He has 

 the arched crown, orb, and sword, but his canopy is 

 quite distorted. The balusters do not even support it. 

 They are attenuated, inclined in opposite directions, 

 and on the top of each is a miniature fleur-de-lys. 

 The arch is wider than before and detached from the 

 pillars. It spans over them like a rainbow, and is 

 jeweUed along its centre with small stars. Its upper 

 enrichments instead of being crockets or other 

 definite forms are little better than flames, clouds, 

 or icebergs. The King's half -figure rests on a hori- 

 zontal shelf, ornamented like the arch, with minute 

 stars. In base are three roses (2 and 1) but not on 

 a shield. The legend is : — 



SIGIL • PECVL • IVEISDIC • DEC • ST^ • 

 BEEIAN^ • 1717 • 



The silver matrix is in the possession of Mr. J. B. 

 Collins, Registrar of the Probate Court (in whose 

 official charge are also the Burian archives). The 

 seal is flat on the back, with a cylindrical holder for 

 a handle. This has been crushed down nearly flat. 

 Ai'ound the margin, on the back of the seal, these 

 words are engraved, viz. : — 



lOANNE HARRIS DECANO. 



In size the seal is nearly 2^ by rather more than 1 ^ 

 inches. (See Plate). 



SEALS OF FRIARIES AND HOSPITALS, 



GUILDS AND CONFKATEENITIES. 



Friaries, Hospitals and Guilds were established in various 

 parts of Cornwall, and they seem to have been of considerable 

 practical utility. Many bequests in their favour, found in 

 old Wills, assist in their identification. Mr. Dunkiu in his 



