76 THE ECCLESLA.STICAL SEALS OF COEmVALt. 



This brass stamp, equivalent to a seal, was obtained 

 for the Bodmin Prior by his Superior D. Luigi Santini, 

 Abate Com. Grenerale dei Canonici Eegolari Later- 

 anensi. (S. Pietro in Vincoli, Eome). 



F. 50. {St. German's). 



Curses, &c. The late Sir Ed. Smirke considered 

 that Walter Bodulgate, in fortifying his Deed of 

 Mass-endowment in 1435, was indebted to the Priory 

 of St. Germans not only for the loan of the beauti- 

 ful seal of John Haukyn, the Prior, but also for the 

 unusually complete form of curse which accompanies 

 its impression. 



The non-fulfilment of the trust was to subject the 

 offender, whoever he might be, to the gravest 

 penalties. 



The words may be thus translated (keeping as 

 nearly as possible to the Latin sounds) : — "I the afore- 

 said Walter, in the presence of Grod Almighty and 

 his Saints, pray that whosoever shall be found cul- 

 pable, concerning this matter, in the Day of Final 

 Judgment, may answer for it to me .... and that his 

 soul may go to the place where there shall be weep- 

 ing and gnashing of teeth ; groaning and shrieking ; 

 lamentation, mourning and excruciation ; din and 

 clamour ; fear and tremor ; grief and labor ; heat 

 and stench ; obscurity and anxiety ; acerbity and 

 asperity ; calamity and want ; extremity and sad- 

 ness ; oblivion and confusion ; tortures and punish- 

 ments ; bitterness and terrors ; hunger and thirst ; 

 cold ; brimstone and fire burning ; through endur- 

 ing ages of ages, for ever.'-* 



This painful catalogue of impending torments may 

 be compared with the brief but expressive entries, of 

 earlier date, which occur in the manumissions 

 recorded (circa 950), in the Bodmin Priory Book of 

 Grospels, (printed in different forms by Davies 

 Grilbert, Wallis, and Oliver). A few quotations must 

 suffice : — 



