146 MURAL GRAVE, &C., CARMINOW. 



as it may, I venture to suggest that the effigy found there in 186-5 

 was that of Sir Eoger, who in 1270 accompanied Edward I (then 

 Prince) in the last Crusade to the Holy Land. 



It does not, however, appear quite plain whether the Crusader 

 Vi^as Roger or Bohert. Hals assumes it was the latter, taking no 

 notice of Eoger. But it might have been either ; for we 'learn 

 from Carew ^''' that Eobert de Carminow held a Knight's fee in 

 -1256, though he was not yet a Knight; he might, therefore^ 

 have been summoned to take up his Knighthood before the last 

 Orusade, in 1270. This is not stated by Carew, though assumed 

 by Hals ; whereas we learn from the former historian, t that in 

 1297, twenty-seven years after that Crusade, "Dominus Eogerus 

 -de Carminow " was summoned as a Knight to attend on Edward I ; 

 and one of the Cornish deeds speaks, in 1285, of Joanna as widow 

 of one Eoger de Carminow, who must have filled up the gap 

 -between his namesake Eoger and the Eobert of Hals. 



The armour of the effigy cannot be expected to settle the 

 question of identity of the Crusader-, for it was of the kind which 

 was in use throughout the Crusades ; but, on a careful comparison 

 of the male effigy with the representations:}; of those in the 

 Temple Church, London, the Carminow effigy is found most 

 nearly to resemble that of Gilbert Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke. 

 It is clothed in ring mail, from head to foot, except the laiees, 

 which appear to be close-covered with leather or cloth rather than 

 steel ; the right leg is crossed over the left ; the right hand grasps 

 the sword-hilt, whilst the left holds the sword-belt, as if the sword 

 had just been sheathed, not as if in the act of being drawn ; a long 

 hauberk, belted at the waist, reaches nearly to the ankles ; the 

 head rests upon a large helmet, and the feet upon a lion couchant ; 

 the heels are spurred ; and a cushion, or some ornament, projects 

 at each shoulder. The shield is shorter than Lord Pembroke's ; 

 ■and there is no fillet round the brow. The ''bend" of the Car- 

 minow coat is distinctly visible upon the shield. 



This armour might have been worn by either of the three 

 worthies above-mentioned; but, as Sir Eoger, who was son of 



• History of Cormuall, Ed. 1811, fol. 137. 



t Ibid., 139. 



,•;: By Ed. Bichardson, sculptor, 4to., 1843. 



