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Courtenay with much liberality, or his wife with much piety. 
An adjacent barn is pointed out as the identical building ; but it 
hardly bears out the story of its cost being equal to that of the 
church. 
Entering the church, we find the monuments few and unim- 
posing. The most interesting are three recumbent effigies ; but no 
arms now remain on either to indicate whom they commemorate. 
There are several shields, which are now blank; but the 
armorial bearings of the persons to whose memory they were 
erected were doubtless originally painted on them. The two 
figures in the south transept are considered, with good reason, to 
represent the founder or rebuilder of the church, Sir Edward 
Courtenay, third son of Hugh second Earl of Devon ; and his wife 
Emmeline, daughter and heiress of Sir John Dawney, of Sheviock, 
who is himself probably represented by the figure under an arch 
in the north aisle. Lysons say that the arms of Courtenay, 
impaling Dawney, were to be seen painted over the lady. The 
figures have been ably treated by Mr. W. H. H. Rogers, F.s.a,, 
who gives engravings of them in his very valuable work on 
The Sepulchral Effigies of Devon. 
The next, in point of age and interest, is a floorslab with these 
arms—(Az.) a saltire (arg.), betw. four martlets (or), and an 
inscription cut round the 
edge, recording the fact 
that John Smyth, gent., 
was buried 18th February, 
1598. This is confirmed 
by the Register, where we 
read that ‘John Smyth, 
senior,” was buried on that 
date. This family was seated 
for a long period in this 
parish in a gentle position. 
Though the connection is 
not at present proved, it 
is most probable that this 
John was the son of John, 
second son of Thomas 
Smith, of Tregonack, in St. Germans. (Vide Col. Vivian’s Visita- 
tions of Cornwall, p. 427.) 
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