CARMINOW OF CARMINOW. 231 



Office in June 1874.*' This seal is in an excellent state of 

 preservation, and is attached to a signed Deed of Oliver Car- 

 mynowe, dated 10th May, 1593 (35 Eliz). 



The Fentongollan branch of the family having descended from 

 that of Carminow, we may consider this to be the correct reading 

 of their motto, Cala raggi Whethlowe, and it diiiers so slightly 

 from those of Pryce and C. S. Gilbert, that it is probable that 

 those authors derived them from some authentic documents. 



Rag and Ehag seem to have been used indifferently as mean- 

 ing "for," gi "those," Whethlowe, according to Williams, f the 

 most recent authority, being the plural inflection of Whethl, a 

 tale ; " A Straw for those Tales." 



The origin of the motto must remain at present in obscurity ; 

 but it certainly cannot have been assumed for the reason given 

 by Hals, because the story on which it was based has been 

 shown to be a pure fable. 



4. MANORIAL RESIDENCE AT CAHMINOW. 



It has been already stated that the family cannot be traced 

 with any certainty farther back than Henry III, but it may very 

 fairly be assumed that they resided at Carminow some genera- 

 tions at least before the marriage of Eoger with heiress of 

 Gervais de Hornacote in that reign, for it is not to be supposed 

 that an u]pstart would be allowed to form such an alliance : and 

 so far as it is possible to Judge from the few remains of early 

 carved stones which exist, it is probable that a building of 

 some pretension was erected there at least as early as the reign 

 of Henry III + 



Although, as has been already said, the name Carminow is 

 not to be found in Domesday, yet the manor of Caer is men- 

 tioned both in the Exchequer Domesday, and in that of Exeter, 

 from which the former is supposed by Sir Henry Ellis to have 

 been compiled. Caer has been shown to have been the earliest 

 form of the first syllable of the family name, and this name of 

 Caer is entered in the Exeter Domesday next in order to that of 

 Winnianton, which it adjoins, just as one would expect to find it 

 placed in the original entry of the itinerant commissioners who 

 were employed in the survey. 



* See plate, fig. 3. 



t Eev. Rob. Williams' Lexicon Cornu. Britannicam, 4°, 1865. 



I Two stone chimney pieces are of Early English type, A.D. 1225-50. 



