Cornworthy

This was a small nunnery near Totnes.  Founded in 1238, this was a poor and isolated community.  The seal probably dates from then.

The seal inscription is + SIGILL' CONVENT D' CORNEWRThI.

Finds.org, where you'll find this seal, says:

'Incidentally, although not much is known about Cornworthy Priory, it does feature in one of the most exciting stories about a medieval English nun - the tearaway Alice de Flixthorpe of Stamford Priory (Lincolnshire). Eileen Power tells the story in Medieval English Nunneries. She was so much trouble, repeatedly escaping from her nunnery, turning up in men's clothing, completely impenitent after excommunication etc, that she was taken as far from trouble as possible and Cornworthy was chosen as her new home. After months in shackles and years of isolation it seemed that her spirit was broken, so she was returned to Lincolnshire. But as Eileen Power puts it, 'her native air blew hope and rebellion into that wild heart' and she was soon back to her old tricks! The end of the story is not known."'  Intriguing...

Birch gave Cornworthy as an Austin priory; the seal is BM 3003.