66 THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORNWALL. 



The site has not been traced. As the Inn " George and Dragon" 

 stands near the Assize Courts on the way to St. Nicholas, it has 

 been thought that perhaps St. George's stood somewhere in that 

 locality. See Maclean (Trigg Minor, vol. 1, p. 198), Oliver 

 (Mou : p. 15), &c. A guild presently to be noticed, was asso- 

 ciated with it. 



"Whether it possessed a seal, or not, is uncertain. 



St. LEONAED'S Hospital for Lepers, LAUNCESTON ; and 



afterwards de INT'AQUAS, Gilmartin, in or near La- 



whitton parish. This establishment, with its Chapel (Dedicated 

 to St. Leonard), existed at an early date in Launceston. Sub- 

 sequently, in the 1 3th century, the community removed to ''a 

 place amongst the waters," named Grillemartin, where also was 

 a Chapel with its cemetery. In the charter of the Prior of 

 Launceston granted to the Lepers in or about the year 1257, 

 the boundaries of this new settlement are described. They were 

 the river Tamar, the water of Kensie, a certain spring with its 

 stream, &c., &c. Probably the place now named St. Leonard's 

 in Lawhitton, just across the division of parishes towards Poul- 

 ston Bridge, approximately indicates the site. The Launceston 

 Priory gave alms to the ''poor lepers" of this hospital, and 

 made provision for its chaplain. There was a Prior of this 

 house. See Oliver (Mon : pp. 22, 25, No. VI, and 28). 



1. Seal. An engraving of this appears in Lysons' 

 Magna Britannia (supplementary plate). St. Leonard 

 is shewn standing, habited in mediaeval vestments, 

 holding pastoral staff in left hand, crook outward, 

 and raising in benediction two fingers of his unlifted 

 right hand. His mitre, if such it be, much resem- 

 bles the cap with ornamented baud upon the head 

 of St. Lawrence in the Seal of the Bodmin lazar 

 house. The cusped canopy with its pill irs and other 

 details, including two branches of foliage, one at 

 each side, are also strikingly similar to those on that 

 seal. Judging from the engraving the two seals 

 appear to be of the same age. The seal of St. 

 Leonard's was made after the migration from Laun- 

 ceston to Gilniartin, as is evident not only from the 



