32 Oil the Phcenician Tin Trade in Cornwall, by R. Edmonds. 
traction) maraz: the Cornish for "markets" is marazion. Through- 
out the Land's-end district, therefore, if one person asked another 
to go to marazion, that is, to "the markets," the town of Marazion 
was thereby indicated as clearly as if it had a name of its own ; 
and thus its general name became its proper name. 
The name on the ivory seal of its corporation, is Marghasion, 
which, although spelt with an s, is always pronounced as if spelt 
with a z, — the letter s in nearly all words being still generally pro- 
nounced as z, in Cornwall. This seal is a very old one — as old 
perhaps as the charter of incorporation, granted in the 37th of 
Elizabeth. Mr. Doubleday, of the British Museum, to whom 
I sent an impression from it, in 1853, when my late father was 
the Town Clerk, wrote me in reply as follows: —"I send you, in 
return, an impression from an ivory seal in our possession. It is 
the Sheriff's of Lancaster, temp. H. VIII., and I think it was en- 
graved by the same person who engraved your seal." Engravings 
from these ivory seals are here given. * The only name, however. 
* The castle on the Marazion seal resemhles the castle forming the crest of the 
Town Arms, painted in 1770 on a board suspended in the Town Hall. This crest 
consists of a central round tower, flanked on either side witli an adjoining smaller 
round tower, covered witli a dome and surmounted by a flag-statf and flag, the cen- 
tral tower being covered, not with a dome, but with a roof like a mitre ; the band 
which usually accompanies a mitre being represented beneath it. This mitre-shaped 
roof rises much higlier than the flags of the lateral towers. The portcullis in the 
painting is raised, in the seal it is down. The corners, where the side-pillars unite 
with the central one—in the seal as well as in the painting— have a twisted pattern, 
