282 THE FAJMILY OF KILLIGREW. 



Esteem therein, Governor to y® Earl of Devonsliire's son, since ty 

 King Wm. created Duke of Devonsliire, also Preceptor to ye late 

 Duke of York, King James y^ 2nd, by style Dr. Killigrew, Master 

 of ys Savoy and Prebend of Westminster, who had two sons, 

 Henry and James, both bred to y^ Sea. His Son Henry, a man of 

 strict honor, by long service arrived to command y^ Fleet of England 

 under King Wm., in y^ late War with France, well known by y^ 

 name of Admiral Killigrew, whose younger brother James, at 21 

 years of age, was honored with y'^ command of 5 men of war in 

 y*' Straights ; where about y^ height of Leghorn he met with and 

 engaged 2 capital French men of war, bigger than any of his, and 

 yet, tho' two of his Captains proved Cowards and would not come 

 to his assistance, he took one of y^ Frenchmen and sunk y^ other, 

 but at y^ expense of his own life, and that of most of his ship's 

 crew, so glorious an end did y^ same James Killigrew make ; w<='* 

 two coward captains for y^ present from y® death of their said 

 commander escaped Punishment ; but some years after, upon a 

 second like misbehaviour, were condemned and shot at Plymouth. 

 Kirby was y*^ name of one of them."^' 



The writer concludes by merely mentioning some of the other 

 junior members of the younger house, among them Thomas (second 

 son of Sir Eobert), the celebrated v/it of Charles the Second's 

 Court, two grandsons and a great grandson of whom were the 

 " last of the Killigrews " at the time the history was written. 

 With them Martin frankly avows he wished to have nothing to 

 do — " to whom I am a stranger or desire to be so thought," — 

 wickedly adding, that they had not " one penny of estate from 

 amongst them all," except about £500 a year, which had come 

 through a marriage. 



* Wade was the name of the other. They were shot in Plymouth Sound, 

 in 1702, for cowardice in Benbow's action with Du Casse, in the West Indies, 

 and were buried in Charles Church, Plymouth. 



