On the Fhcenician Tin Trade in Cornwall, by R. Edmonds. 33 
in the charter by which the town is called, is Marghasiewe, the last 
four letters being, with iou and ion, the three different ways in 
which the plural of Cornish nouns is formed. But the town has 
never been so called by the pubhc during the present century, and 
probably never during the last. 
Market' Jew, the name always within living memory used 
by the rural population, is considered by Dr. Bannister, as well 
as by the Professor, to be a corruption of its more ancient Cornish 
name. But market is clearly an English word, and no corruption 
of the Cornish ; whilst Jew is nothing more than a very common 
way of pronouncing iewe, the Cornish plural, as written in the 
name Marghasiewe in the charter. And if the sound i in the 
first of these four letters is the more euphonious after the word 
marghas, the sound j of the same letter is the more pleasing 
to the ear after the word market. Therefore, the name Market- 
Jew was adopted instead of market-iewe. A local example of these 
two different sounds of the letter i occurs in the name of the 
chief tin -producing parish in the district, which is by the 
country people called St. lust ( St. Teust J, while all others call it 
St. Just. It is remarkable that whilst the local gentry have 
always called the town by its pure Cornish name, Marazion, 
like a rope. The shield in the painting thus crested with the castle contains three 
similar but smaller castles. 
Marazion, as far back as the eleventh century, having belonged to the Priory of 
St. Michael's Mount, the arms adopted by the corporation were probably those of the 
Priory. Indeed, a corbel of what is said to be Norman-elvan, which projected from 
the wall of the ancient Nunnery of the Mount, and which now supports one of the 
pillars of the new balustrade of the terrace, bears on one of its five faces or shields 
three castles, all flat at the top and with battlements. This shield is the front one. 
On one of the other escutcheons are three Jieurs de lis, with a chevron between. 
The rest of the five shields are in blank. To see this corbel you must pass through 
a door on your left in ascending to the castle. 
St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, and St. Michael's Mount in Normandy were given 
by William the Conqueror, about the year 1085, to the Earl of JMoretaigne, afterwards 
Earl of Cornwall. Each is an " insulated rock of granite," and " both mounts ap- 
pear from the earliest period to have been fortifications as well as religious houses, 
and to have contained garrisons as well as conventual buildings." (Oliver's Monas- 
ikon, p. 30, 31.) 
