230 CAEMINOW OF CAEMINOW. 



interprets "a straw for fame, or breath," was then assumed by 

 the family to manifest their distaste for the judgment against 

 them.* Now, although Davies Gilbert adopts this fable and 

 erroneous motto, and quotes Lysons as referring to a totally 

 different controversy on the same armorial coat, namely, that which 

 had then recently been published by Sir Harris Nicolas, as the 

 " Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy," it will be admitted by any 

 one who will be at the pains to examine that famous but rare 

 treatise, that Hals' story would be somewhat nearer the truth if 

 Grosvenor were read for Carminow throughout. It is very possible 

 that Hals may have examined the original Roll in the Tower, 

 but more likely that he got his information from the abstract of 

 the case made in the reign of Elizabeth, and now in the British 

 Museum, Harl: 293, fo. 191. 



The Scrope and Grosvenor Roll contains a reference to the 

 previous challenge of Scrope's arms by Carminow, and thus 

 satisfies D. Gilbert's two controversies, whilst a little carelessness 

 in transcribing by Hals will account for almost every invention 

 of his on the main point, namely, the order for use of the label 

 of difference. 



Hals, indeed, is known to have introduced so many inaccura- 

 cies and fables into his History, that it was mainly because of 

 the offence given in many quarters by these very faults that the 

 book was never completed. 



The motto used by Carminow has already been given as Cala 

 raggi Whethlowe, on the authority of the seal of 1593. The 

 words are pure Cornish, but they have been hitherto variously 

 spelt and interpreted, owing to the carelessness of copyists, and 

 the want of a standard authority. C. S. Gilbert has Cala rag 

 Whetlow.f Pryce,:]: in his Cornish Grammar under the word 

 Whetlow, has " Cala rhag Whetlow, a " straw for a tale bearer : 

 — Carminoe's motto." 



The reading which I have given above has, however, the better 

 authority of the seal of Oliver Carminow of FentongoUan, dis- 

 covered by Mr. Evelyn Eashleigh of MenabiUy at the Eecord 



* Hals, as cited by Davies Gilbert, Hist : c. HI, p. 129. 



t Arms, plate VI, Vol. II. of his History. 



X Archoeologia Cornu, Britannica, 4to, Sherborne, 1.790. 



