68 THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORNWALL. 



vj'l " (Test : Cornub : p. 8). No further notice of the place 

 appears, and no seal of it is known. 



St. MAEGAEET'S, justa Helston. This, according to the 

 same document, was another Hospital in which were Lepers. 

 Megre's words are thus given : — " Item lego cuilibet lazari 

 ecclesie Sancte Margarete juxta Helston in comitatu Cornubie 

 yjd " Nothing more appears concerning it. The dedications in 

 the town were St. Michael, and Our Lady. There was also the 

 hospital of St. Mary Magdalen close by (see next paragraph), 

 the question therefore arises, was that the one intended in 

 Megre's codicil, or was there a St. Margaret's also ? No seal 

 of St. Margaret's is known. 



St. MAEY MAGDALEN'S, afterwards St. JOHN the 

 BAPTIST'S, juxta Helston. This hospital was in Sithney, in 

 proximity to Helston. One of its Priors has been mentioned by 

 Lysons (Mag: Brit : III. p. 28 >), and another by Oliver (Mon : 

 p. 72j. The Hospital existed in 1411. John Megre may have 

 alluded to it, if he miscalled it St. Margaret's (see above). No 

 seal of it is known. 



St. MARY MAGDALEN'S, usually called Maudlin, in Men- 

 heniot, juxta Liskeard. Hospital for Lepers. See Tanner 

 (Notitia Monastica), Oliver (Mon : p. 72), Lysons (Mag : Br : 

 III. p. 225), Lake's Hist : of Cornwall (vol. 3, pp. 143, 316). 

 About the year 1400, a Papal Indulgence was granted concern- 

 ing this hospital. In 1419, John Megre bequeathed ninepence 

 "to be divided amongst the Lepers at Leskyrd." The seal is 

 not found. 



GUILDS and other FEATEENITIES (in addition to the 

 societies already described) existed in connecti<:)n with the Church 

 in Cornwall, although their objects were not of a specially 

 ecclesiastical nature. 



The leading liurgesses of each Borough, elected to be a Council 

 of Management, may be regarded as having formed a municipal 

 Guild, — the Mayor (or Prepositus) and his brethren, meeting in 

 their Guildhall, using, as a corporate body, a common seal, 

 attending, in state procession, the Parish Church, and contri- 

 buting from their common chest to its support. Other Guilds wero 



