CARMINOW OF CARMINOW. 235 



requirements of modern husbandry; and the clear spring of 

 water, the moat, and the neighbouring woods, together with the 

 fragments of carved stones shown in the new walls, are all that 

 remain as records of the days of chivalry. 



5. LANDS HELD BY THE CAE.MIN0W FAMILY. 



It only remains to collect the few proofs of their lands in Corn- 

 wall, and to give a list of the names of witnesses and other 

 persons which occur in the title deeds from which these proofs 

 are mainly taken, so far as they serve to illustrate the pedigree, 

 or are connected with general or local history. 



The lands conveyed in these deeds are supplemented by 

 reference to other lands mentioned in the inquisitions held upon 

 the deaths of such members of the family as were in the direct 

 descent, and inherited the lands successively. 



Eleven early deeds of title of the two manors of Carminow 

 and Winnianton are preserved at Penrose, bearing dates from 

 the year 1319 to 1360. Seven of these are dated at Carminow, 

 one at "Wynianton, and one at Landekye, a place which I have 

 failed to identify. These are deeds of the Carminow family. 

 Several deeds also of the Arundells of Lanherne, commencing 

 with the year 1457, continue the title to more recent times. 

 With few exceptions they are in a very good state of preserva- 

 tion, owing to the lands which they convey having changed 

 hands only once in five centuries. 



The first mention of lands occurs in the year 1284, when Sir 

 Roger de Carminow, the crusader, is named as holding Estdysart 

 and "Westdysart, which seem to have come to bim through his 

 mother, as heiress of Hornacote.^' These deeds were prob- 

 ably parcel of the Manor of Hornacote in Stratton. In 1299 

 the same Sir Roger is taxed for his part of Winianton, Merthyn, 

 and Tamerton,! and again in 1303 for the same lands, on the 

 marriage of the eldest daughter of the king, Edward IIIj' 

 This was on the marriage of Joan of Acre, who was born in 

 Palestine in 1272, and who, after the death of her first husband 

 Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester in 1295, married secondly 

 Ealph de Monthermer in 1303. She died in 1307. 



* Assize roll, Cornwall, 12 ed., 1. 



t Scutagium Scotioe, 28 Ed. 1. 



t Roll of fees for marriage of King's eldest daughter, 31 Ed. 1. 



