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ST. LEONARD'S HOSPITAL. 47 Carpenter family, some of whose members had, in and after 1729, occupied Gillmartin, and he does not doubt its authenticity. We give a sketch of the seal. Messrs.' Lysons have, in their History of Cornwall, furnished an engraving from the same mould. The seal is of the fifteenth or sixteenth century type. We suggest that the Lepers adopted a seal on the dissolution of their mother priory. The final words of the legend are remarkable. " Int aquas " are believed to distinguish this par- ticular hospital by its position " between* the waters." The oblong spots on the seal indicate links of broken chain, the usual insignia of St. Leonard. We have no record of the answer which the Prior and his brethren received to their petition. By an indenture dated 16th December, 1609, "made be- tween W m Bariball, Prieor of the Hospitall Howse of S* Leonards al s Gillmarten, Erne Soper, and Alice Geache, fellowes of the same Hospitall Howse" of the one part, and Thomas Heane, husbandman, also his wife, and Robert Heane, sonne of W m Heane deceased, of the other part, The said Bariball, Soper, and Geache, in consideration of 40s. paid to them by the said Thomas Heane and Robert Heane, in the name of a fine, and also for that the said Heane, wife, and Heane had surrendered their right for term of their lives in "One howse and garden in St. Leonards aforesaid," did lease to the said Heane, wife, and Heane, "All that one Howse and a garden, with comons in ►J* sigillvm hospital: sci: leonardi DE INT. AQVAS.