page_title: Manor of Haccombe
section_title: Nicholas Carew (died 1469)
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Haccombe / Descent of the manor / Carew / Nicholas Carew (died 1469)
caption_attribution_description: English: Monumental brass of Nicholas Carew (d.1469) of Haccombe, Devon. Haccombe Church, floor of chancel. Beneath the figure is the following leonine verse inscription in Latin (Transcribed variously (with varying degrees of accuracy and conjecture) by Stabb and by Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.166) Armiger insignis jacet hic Carew Nicholaus, Prudens egregius de stirpe nobili natus, Vitam Septembris p(rae)sente(m) clausit eundo, Ab isto mensis die decimo tercio mu(n)do, Edwardi nono regni quarti ratis anno, Necnon millen(sim)o CCCCo quae pleno, Cu(m) sexagen(sim)o nono d(omi)ni num(er)ato, Cui solamen a(n)i(ma)e cito det Deus Amen. Which may be translated as follows: "A distinguished esquire lies here: Nicholas Carew, outstandingly foreseeing, born of a noble stock. He closed this present life in going from this world on the thirteenth of September in the ninth year reckoned of the reign of Edward the fourth and indeed in the one thousandth four hundredth and sixty ninth numbered of our Lord, a comfort to the soul of whom may God give in haste"
context_page_description: The manor of Haccombe was a historic manor in the small parish of Haccombe, near the town of Newton Abbot, Devon, England. It was the seat of important branches of the Courtenay and Carew families.
context_section_description: Nicholas Carew (died 1469), second son, was given Haccombe by his mother Joan Courtenay. He married Anna Crocker, "widow of John Seymour" and a daughter of Sir John Crocker (died 1508) of Lyneham in the parish of Yealmpton, Devon, a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1491, whose inscribed monumental brass, showing him dressed in armour, survives in Yealmpton Church.
  The well-known and fine small monumental brass of Nicholas Carew, "in spiky armour", between four heraldic escutcheons displaying the arms of Carew, survives set into a ledger stone on the floor of the chancel of Haccombe Church, on the south side of the effigy of Sir Stephen de Haccombe. It was described as follows by Stabb (died 1917): "The armour is very rich; on his head is a visored salade raised to show the face; on the shoulder are paldrons, and on the right shoulder a peculiarly shaped plate of steel, called a moton; the hands, which wear gauntlets, are joined in prayer; the elbow and knee plates are large. The sword, which hangs in front, is long and reaches to the feet, the latter having spurs on the heels".
caption: Photograph of monumental brass of Nicholas Carew, Haccombe Church
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