224 CARMINOW OF CAEMINOW. 



Grervais de Hornacote, who had received it in exchange for the 

 Manor of Boscyny (Bossiney) with Eiehard, Earl of Cornwall* — 

 A glance at the pedigree will also shew the alliances formed 

 with many distinguished families of Devon as well as Cornwall, 

 whose names need not be repeated here : but a few personal 

 distinctions may be noticed. And first and foremost stands the 

 crusader, whose effigy, removed from the chapel at Carminow to 

 the Parish Church of Mawgan in Meneage, as appears in Hals,f 

 may still be seen in the Carminow aisle of that Church. In a 

 former number, j it has been shown that this was probably the 

 effigy of Sir Eoger, who in 1270 accompanied Edwd. I (then 

 Prince) in the last crusade. His son, Sir Oliver, is stated by 

 some writers to have been Lord Chamberlain to the King 

 Ed: II (not Eich. II, as in Polwhele's pedigree). I find no 

 proof of this, but he was a Knight of the Shire in 7 Ed. II, a 

 man at arms and held £40 in lands 17 Ed. II, Commissioner of 

 Assay 19 Ed. II, and Sheriff of Cornwall and Keeper of 

 Launceston Castle in the following reign, as wiU be seen from 

 this entry, which, however, does not mention the year. 



" Bex commisit Olivero de Carmynou com : Cornub : ac castrum 

 "Eegale de Launceneton cum pert: habendum quamdiu &c."|| 

 About the same time (the year is again omitted), John, probably 

 Sir Oliver's brother, was put in charge of all the Eoyal forests 

 in Cornwall, thus: — "Eex commisit Johanni de Carmynou 

 "custodiam forestarum pecorum boscorum et Warrennarum 

 " Eegis tam viridi quam de venacione in Com. Cornub. habendum 

 " quamdiu &c."§ Dr. Drake shews him to have been summoned 

 to Westminster a few years' previously, 17, Ed : II, and he died 

 in 1332.^ 



Thomas, one of the yoimger sons of Sir Oliver, was rector of 

 Mawgan in Meneage from 1349 to 1361.** Sir Walter, who 

 was a minor when his father Sir John died in 1331, was inward 

 of John Plantagenet Earl of Cornwall.ff It may be added that 



* Assize Eoll, 30 Ed. I, confirmed by minutes of Duchy Council in 1353. 

 t Davies Gilbert, Hist : Cornwall, III, 129. 



I Journal E.I.C., ii, 143. 



II Eot. Originalium Abbreviatio Ed. 3, Vol. 2, Eo. 16. 

 § Ibidem, Eo. 8. 



% Visitation, c. 297. 



** Episcopal Eegister, and deed dated 16 Ed : III, at Penrose. 



tt Pipe o£ace roll, cited in Visit : 1620, p. 297. 



