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 OVER PEOVER. 

[Communicated by the Rev. H. M. Lefroy.]

Many pieces of armour of the XVIIth century, chiefly Town armour.

The chief family of Over Peover was that of Mainwaring (arms, arg. two bars gu.; crest, out of a ducal coronet an Ass' head proper).

There are effigies in armour of Randle Mainwaring, erected 1456, of Sir John Mainwaring (? date), of Sir John Mainwaring, ob. 1515, of Philip Mainwaring, ob. 1573, and an altar tomb of Philip Mainwaring, ob. 1647.

ROSTHERNE. 

[Communicated by the Rev. C. H. Conybeare, M.A., Tichborne.]

1. Helmet.

2. Two gauntlets.

3. Various pieces of armour.

Tradition. The above are said to have been dug up near by, and to be associated with the Venables family.

In the window at the head of the chancel are the arms of Venables. There is a figure in armour of a Venables, which was formerly placed recumbent under an arch with an ornamented canopy on the north side of the chancel (Harl. MSS. 2151, 6).

The patrons of the living, 1188-1438, were members of the Venables family.

Cf. H. Hulme, "Bygones of Rostherne and Tatton."

CORNWALL

BREAGE. 

1603

1. Close helmet, Elizabethan.

2. Close helmet, XVIIth century, crested, a dolphin.

3. Close helmet, XVIIth century, crested, a dolphin.

All are illustrated in Fig. 1603.

Tradition. The Godolphin family. One of the helmets may have been carried at the funeral of Sidney Godolphin, poet, soldier, and philosopher, friend of Clarendon, Hobbes, and Waller.

Crest. A dolphin naiant embowed ppr. (Godolphin.)

Cf. H. R. Coulthard, "Story of an Ancient Parish, Breage with Germoe," p. 102.

EGLOSKERRY. 

1. Helmet, of the period of Henry VIII.

2. Gauntlets.

Tradition. Unknown. Perhaps connected with the Specott family (crest, an eagle displayed gu.) of which there are several XVIIth century memorials.

Cf. "Devon and Cornwall N. and Q.," xi, pt. iii, p. 93.

KILKHAMPTON. 

[Communicated by Miss Miller, William Salt Library, Stafford.]

1. Helmet.

2. Helmet.

3. Gauntlets.

All hanging in the Granville chapel where they were placed in 1859.

Tradition. Associated with the monument of Sir Bevil Grenville, ob. 1643, the hero of Stamford Hill, killed at the battle of Lansdown, 1643. He was grandson of Sir Richard Grenville, the sailor.

In the Salt Library, Stafford, is a drawing dated 1827, showing two helmets on perches on the walls of the nave.

PAUL. 

1. Helmet (now no longer in the church).

2. Breastplate.

3. Two swords, one of which bears the inscription: "Nicholas Godolphin, armiger, Sepultus est Feb. 16. 1633."