THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORNWALL. 65 



Britannia." This engraving, otherwise good, unfor- 

 tunately omits the y from Penpoy. In judging the 

 age of the seal it should be compared with the en- 

 graving on the same page shewing the seal of St, 

 Leonard's, Gilmartin, which strikingly resembles it 

 in canopy and other details. 



The matrix is of brass. It measures 2- by I - 



10 ■' 10 



inches, and is about -!- of an inch in thickness. 

 From point to point along the flat back extends a 

 perpendicular plate or ridge somewhat thicker 

 than the seal. At one place this is raised (near 

 the lower point of the seal) so as to form a half 

 disc, tlirough which is bored a hole, either for the 

 attachment of some other sort of handle, or simply 

 for the purpose of suspension. This plate, on the 

 back, rises but slightly at each extremity and about 

 I of an inch at the pierced i)art. After the transfer 

 of the hospital estate, the seal was accidentally 

 sold with other old brass, in Bodmin, and was 

 bought by the late Mr. E. Bray, town clerk. It 

 is now in the possession of Mr. J. B. Collins, to 

 whose coui'tesy I am indebted for an examination 

 of it, as well as of other seals already mentioned. 



In Mr. Worth's description of this Seal T is misprinted for C 

 in the lege nd. 



St. ANTHONY'S Hospital, BODMIN. Mentioned in 1500. 

 The site is now occupied by Coombery, a modern residence, in 

 Chapel Lane. The history of the Hospital with its Chapel is 

 unknown. See Wallis (Cornwall Eegister, p. 205), also Lysons, 

 Maclean, &c., and Oliver (Mon : p 15). 



Whether it possessed a seal or not is uncertain. A beautiful 

 seal, preserved in another part of England, adorned with figures 

 of St Anthony (with Tau-cross and pig), and St. Dunstan, Arch- 

 bishop, (with hammer and pincers\ was at one time sujiposed to 

 relate to it, but eventually it was found to belong to the hospital 

 of St. Anthony de Hodstun. 



St. GEORGE'S Hospital, BODMIN. Mentioned in 1405, 1432, 

 1500, &e. Very little is known of this house or of its chapel. 



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