THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORN-WALL. 67 



■workmanship, but from the description of the locality 

 which appears in the border legend : — 



SIGILLVM • HOSPITAL • SCI LEONARDI : 

 DE -INT i^QVAS. 



The matrix, Lysons states, was " in the possession of 

 the Eev. E. V. Jago " (the Rector of Landiilph, who 

 assumed the additional surname of Arundell). 



St. THOMAS'S Hospital for Lepers, NEWPOET, juxta Laun- 

 ceston. Oliver (Mon : p. 22) states that this was well 

 endowed and governed in Carew's time. 

 No seal of this house is known to exist. 



St. MA-RGtAEET'S juxta Launceston, Hospital for Lepers. 

 Mentioned (according to Dunkin) in a Latin codicil, dated 1419, 

 annexed to the Will of John Megre, citizen of London, pewterer 

 (Test: Cornub : p. 9). After bequeathing twelvepence " to be 

 divided amongst the lepers of the Chapel of St. Laurence by 

 Bodmin," he gave, in similar terms, ninepence "to be divided 

 amongst the lepers of the Church of St. Margaret by Launs- 

 ton." This ecclesiastical house of charity does not seem to have 

 been noticed by other writers, but it must have existed unless a 

 mistake has been made with regard to its name. If that be the 

 case, either St. Leonard's or St. Thomas's, just referred to, may 

 have been intended ; but perhaps the record is right. No seal 

 of this house is known. 



LAMPOET, juxta Lostwithiel. This also, as a Hospital for 

 Lepers, is mentioned in the same codicil of 1419, but no 

 ecclesia or c.ipella is included in its title. John Megre bequeaths 

 ninepence " to be divided amongst the lepers at Lamport by 

 Lost Twethyell." This house likewise seems to have escaped 

 previous notice. Can it be possible that the words "Lamport, 

 Lost-twethyell," were written (in error) for "Newport, Laun- 

 ceston," where stood a lazar house to which reference has been 

 made already ? It is scarcely likely that such an error would 

 occur. No seal of Lamport Hospital is known. 



SHIPPSTALL, in Cornwall. Another abode of Lepers, 

 named by the same John Megre. His woids appear thus : — 

 " Item lego cuilibet lazari apud Shippstall in dicto comitatu 



