[Illustration: (end of chapter vignette.)] FOOTNOTES: [1] Camden says they had four other seats, viz., Wolstan, Stanbury, Clifton and Lanow. [2] John Graynfylde was Vicar of Morwenstow, 1536; the church was granted to Sir Richard Grenville, one of the Church Commissioners for Cornwall, by Henry VIII. [3] Harl. MSS. 1079; in which their shield has fifty-three quarterings and three crests. [4] George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, says, in a note to one of his poems, that the arms of his family--'gules, three clarions or'--carved in stone, had stood for nine centuries over one of the gates of the town of Granville. They also appropriately appear (as the arms of John Grenville, first Earl of Bath) over the principal gateway of Plymouth Citadel. [5] In the fortieth year of Henry III. (1256), I find the name of Richard de Grenvile amongst the 'nomina illorum qui teñ: quindecim libratas terræ, vel plus, et tenent per servitium militare, et milites non sunt;' and in 1297 Richard Grenevyle, of Stow, was amongst those who had £20 a year, or more, in land. In later times the Grenvilles held Swannacote, Bynnamy, Ilcombe, Albercombe, and other places, as well as Stow, in the Hundred of Stratton. [6] Cf. the _Times_, 16th February, 1883. [7] Drake figures the tomb (which represents him carrying the cross in his _left_ hand) in his 'Eboracum;' and it is also given in Waller's 'Sepulchral Brasses.' Cf. _Quarterly Review_, cii. 297; and Wright's 'Essays,' i. 134; Holinshed in 'Edward I.,' p. 315; and Le Neve's 'Fasti Eccl. Ang.,' vol. iii. p. 105. [8] Pole says that 'S^r Rich^d. Grenvill, K^t., served under th'erle of Hartford before Hamble Tewe, with 200 soldiers, and at Bolleyne, anno 38 of Kinge Henry 8.' [9] Cf. 'A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia,' 1571 (?), fol. Messrs. Boase and Courtney observe that a very limited number of this, the rarest and most precious book relating to America, has been executed in fac-simile by the photo-lithographic process, and that an edition of 150 copies of this work has also been printed by the Hercules Club. [10] I hardly know which portrait Kingsley is describing. One of the finest that I have seen is a photograph of that now in the possession of the Thynne family. It represents Sir Richard at about thirty years of age, and with the most keen and determined expression imaginable. Another is engraved in Prince's 'Worthies of Devon;' and Crispin Pass engraved a likeness of him for his 'Heroologia,' probably from the same original as Prince's; it bears the motto-- 'Neptuni proles, qui magni Martis alumnus Grenvilius patrias sanguine tinxit aquas.' [11] An old Cornish song runs thus: 'Oh, where be those gay Spaniards Which make so great a boast O? Oh, they shall eat the grey goose-feather, And we shall eat the roast O!'