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Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Maker
- Fouracre & Son
- Main subject
- Arms of the nine Cornish boroughs having independent representatives in the County Council:
Launceston Bodmin Liskeard Penryn Truro Falmouth Helston Penzance St Ives - Subject type
- Decorative
- Notes
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- Maker, subjects, insertion, , .
Arms of the nine Cornish boroughs having independent representatives in the County Council.
Sicillum Dunhevidi boweogh alyas Launceston
Top row left. The seal of Launceston, with a shield of the arms of the borough, gules a triple circular tower within a border argent charged with eight towers domed argent. (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. Magna Britannia: Volume 3, Cornwall, p . London, T Cadell and W Davies, ) **
Sigill[um] comune Burgensium Bodminie
Top row, centre. The seal of the Borough of Bodmin, representing a king sitting under a Gothic canopy (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. op cit, p ). *
Sigillum Liskeard Burgi de commune
Top row right. The seal of Liskeard, containing a fleur-de-lys on which are two birds, with an amulet over the head of each, and under the fleur-de-lys on each side a prince’s feather (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. op cit, p ). **
Penryn Burgus
Middle row, left. The seal of Penryn, a shield on which is the bust of a man in profile, couped at the breast, vested over the shoulder, and wreathed about the temples with laurel, tied behind with a ribbon flotant. (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. op cit, p ). ***
Exaltatum cornu in Deo
Middle row, centre. The seal of Truro, gules, the base barry wavy of six argent and azure thereon a ship of three masts under sail, all argent on each mast a banner of St George, on the waves in base two fishes of the second (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. op cit, p ). The inscription, used as the motto of Truro, may be an abbreviated form of ***Et exaltatum est cornu meum in Deo meo (Mine horn is exalted in the Lord) ( ).
Falmouth
Middle row, right. The seal of Falmouth, having a spread eagle with a castle on each wing, and a rock on its breast (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. op cit, p ). *
The seal of the Borough of Helleston
Bottom row, left. The seal of the Borough of Helston, containing a figure of St Michael holding a shield, charged with the arms of England, and standing between two towers (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. op cit, p ). In his right hand St Michael holds a spear with which he is slaying the dragon at his feet. *
Pensans anno Domini
Bottom row, centre. The seal of Penzance, showing the head of St John the Baptist. (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. Magna Britannia: Volume 3, Cornwall, p . London, T Cadell and W Davies, ) ***
Sigillum burgi St Ives in com Cornub
Bottom row, right. The seal of St Ives, with a shield of the arms of the borough, argent an ivy branch overspreading the whole field vert (Lysons, D, Lysons, S. op cit, p .) **