74 THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF COENWALL. 



Grafton"), — there was a Preceptory of the Hospitallers 

 at Trebigh in St. Ive. Oliver, after appearing to 

 exclude it by the words of his Preface, thus alludes 

 to it afterwards (Mon : p. 439) : — "A.t Treby was 

 formerly a Cell dependent on St. Joha's at 

 Jerusalem." It is also mentioned by other writers. 

 No Seal of it is known. 



P. 46. fSt Benefs.) 



In 1430, St. Benet's Chapel is thus mentioned in the 

 will of Andrew Lanvyan, Hector of Lanivet : — "Lego 

 ad fabricam capelle Sancti Benedicti, infra dictam 

 parochiam situate, xx" (Dunkin's Test : Cornub : p. 

 17). An interesting view of St. Benet's, as it was, 

 is given in Lyson's Cornwall (Mag : Brit : Vol. 3). 



Pp. 46 and 47. f Nunneries.) 



Besides St. Benet's and Credis, which — with 

 Lanherne — have already been discussed, the following 

 are mentioned more or less doubtfully by Lysons. 

 See Mag : Brit : (Vol : 3, Cornwall, pp. xxxv, 343) : — 

 The Nunnery of the Poor Clares at Liskeard, where 

 " Grreat Place " with its chapel, now a bake-house, is 

 regarded as the site ; The Nunnery of the same 

 Order at Truro, where the late " King's Head " Inn 

 marked the spot, till it was pulled down to open a 

 way up the newly-built Lemon Street from Boscawen 

 Street ; A third Poor Clares' House at Tresillian 

 Bridge in Merther ; A Nunnery at Hellnoweth (New- 

 hall) in St. Martin's, Meneage ; One at Trugan in 

 St. Michael Penkivel ; and another (of the Gilber- 

 tines) on St. Michael's Mount. All these, according 

 to Lysons, have no documentary or seal proof of ever 

 having existed. They are therefore dismissed by 

 Oliver as imaginary. 



There seems, however, to have been a Nunnery in 

 St. Ewe, during the time that Lanhadron was 

 possessed by the Arundells. Part of the road by 

 Lanhadron is still called Nunnery Hill. {R. I. of C. 

 Jl, vol. 6, p. 397). 



