178 EAELT ACCEPTATION OF THE NAME OF FAliMOTTTH. 



lu his examination lie stated that the letter from the Council 



was brought by the messenger one Sunday night when he was 

 in bed, that he did think the letter directed to the Mayor of 

 Falmouth should have been delivered to the Mayor of Truro, 

 and therefore at first refused to receive it, but the messenger 

 insisting on it, he took it and forwarded it to the Mayor of Truro, 

 who at once took the necessary steps to stay the prizes. — {State 

 Papers Domestic, Jas. I, Vol. 130, No. 91.) 



PEDIGEEE OP THE KILLIGEEWS. 



The accompanying portions of the Pedigree of the 

 EUligrews will serve to elucidate the Killigrew and Falmouth 

 MSS., and Mr. Tregellas' historical sketch of the Killigrews 

 {Cornish Worthies, Vol. II, pp. 113—197). 



They have been extracted, by permission, from the complete 

 pedigrees of the Killigrew and Erisey families, in the Visitations 

 of Cornwall, of 1530, 1573, 1620, which have been edited, with 

 additions, by Lieut. -Col. J. L. Vivian. 



The names of John Merrill, for whom the Falmouth MS. 

 was written by M. Lister Killigrew, and his descendants for two 

 generations, have been omitted by Col. Vivian, but supplied at 

 the Arwenack Manor Office. 



The following extract from Hals is contradicted both by 

 Col. Vivian and by Capt. Lister Killigrew; and Hals is 

 notoriously untrustworthy. 



"John Killygrew, Esq., that married Monke, had issue by 

 " her William Killigrew, Esq., created the 585th Baronet of 

 "England, patent 22nd of December, 12th Charles II, 1660, 

 "with limitation to Peter Killygrew, Esq., son of Sir Peter 

 " Killygrew, aforesaid. Knight. This Sir William Killigrew, 



