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TWO HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF THE KILLIGEEW FAMILY OF 



AEWENACK, COMPOSED BY MARTIN LISTER KILLIGREW, 



IN 1737-8, AND KNOWN AS THE KILLIGREW MS. AND 



THE FALMOUTH MS. 



Edited by H. M. JBFFERY, F.R.S., Vice-President. 



Both these MSS. have been published in a mutilated form, 

 —the first by Mr. "Worth, in April, 1871 {Journal of the E.LC, 

 pp. 269—282,) and both by Mr. W. 0. Wade, in the Western 

 Daily Mercury, in September, 1878, with prefatory remarks 

 and interesting comments. 



Mr. Worth entitled his paper — " The family of Killigrew," 

 — and avowedly omitted from the MS. narrative many pages, 

 which would not interest the general reader. He (Mr. W.) has 

 also prefixed to ' ' this valuable contribution to the historical 

 collections of the county," a sketch of the author, which contains 

 all that is known of the last of the Killigrews in the main 

 branch ; to this memoir our readers are referred.* The phrase- 

 ology and orthography are reproduced in nearly their pristine 

 form, from the copy before him : the original was not known to 

 exist (Mr. W.) 



It will be shewn at the end of this preface that Mr. Worth's 

 title is misleading: it should have been narrowed as "The 

 Arwenack or Main Branch of the Killigrew family." 



Mr. Wade claimed for his copies, that they were the 

 original MSS. " The original manuscripts written by a member 

 "of the Killigrew family were the property of the late John 



* The following notice of the author is given by Hals {Collections, 1685 — 

 1736) p. 127 : " Sir Peter Killigrew had Issue also two daughters, the one married 

 to Richard Erisey, Esq., and another married to Martin Lister, Esq., of Liston, 

 in Staffordshire, a Captain or Lieutenant in Pendenis Castle, under John Earl 

 of Bath ; upon whose Issue by her Sir Peter settled much of his Lands, on Con- 

 dition he should assume the name of Killygrew, and is now in possession of this 

 Lordship.'* 



