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Sir Jolin Ai'undell, who by his grandfather's marriage succeeded 

 to the manors of Carminow and Winnianton on the death of 

 Joanna Carminow, in 1396, held the office of the King's Seneschal 

 in Cornwall, and died in 1433. The manors remained in the 

 Arundell family until 1801, when they were sold. 



These scanty items are all that exist of the personal history of 

 the family, and though none of them adorn the page of English 

 history, there can be little doubt that the important alliances which 

 they formed with other influential families, contributed to maintain 

 their position among the worthies of our county some centuries 

 after the failure of the elder branch. 



3. ARMS, CREST AND MOTTO. 



The arms of Carminow are Azure, a lend Or ; — crest, a Dolphin 

 embowed ; motto, cala raggi whethlowe, (a straw for those tales).*' 

 It has been long supposed that this coat was differenced by a 

 label of three points, Gules ; but it can be satisfactorily shown 

 that this difference was never adopted by the elder branch of 

 the family, nor, so far as I am aware, by the head of any other 

 branch of it. C. S. Grilbert, indeed, rejDresents the arms as thus 

 differenced, in the 2nd Yol. of his History of Cornwall, plate 6, 

 and other authors of credit and repute have treated the label as 

 a part of the family coat. The most recent of these, Sir John 

 Maclean, in his history of the Deanery of Trigg, shews the label, 

 in the coat with which he illn.strates a general table of Cornish 

 descents. (Vol. i, p. 317.) The original Pedigree of Carminow 

 also, as given in Harl, MS. 1164, fo. 81, is headed by a shield 

 drawn for twelve quarterings, eleven of which are left blank. 

 The first quarter is tricked Az. : a bend or, with a label of three, 

 Gules ; and the Carminow arms are similarly differenced in the 

 fifteenth quartering of the Grrenville coat in the same Volume, 

 probably by the same hand.f These indications of the label 

 cannot, however, be received as good authority, but, on the 

 contrary, may safely be rejected as among the acknowledged 

 inaccuracies of the MS., because the writer himself represents 

 the two seals of the deeds which were offered in proof of the 

 armorial bearings as having no label.:]: 



* See engraving of Seal of Oliver Carminow, 1593. 



t A reduced fac simile of this Grenville coat forms the frontispiece of the 

 published Visitation of 1620. 



J See the notice of these seals below, pp. 226-7, and the Visitation of 1620, 

 page 33. 



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