SKETCHES OF THE KILLIGREW FAMILY. 183 



" Hooton, Esq., of Falmouth, and have recently been put into 

 "my hands by my brother-in-law, Mr. Edward J. Hooton, of 

 " Plymouth, his grandson." It may be proved that these were 

 not the originals, since a large hiatus occurs in the Killigrew 

 MS. between the events of 1670 and 1685, which is supplied 

 partially by Mr. Worth and completely by the manor-office copy. 

 Moreover, the language and orthography are everywhere modern- 

 ised in the Plymouth print, and a lengthy document has been 

 condensed. Several pages were lost at the end of the Hooton 

 copies of both MSS. at the time of publication. 



The present edition is mainly based on the manor-office 

 copy of the Killigrew MS., and on a transcript of the Falmouth 

 MS. (carelessly taken) in the possession of Mr. W. J. Grenn, of 

 Falmouth : the Plymouth text has been partially collated with 

 the other two. 



The present Editor has obtained the consent of the Council 

 to complete the publication of the Killigrew MS. in their 

 Journal, and to produce the entire Falmouth MS. They thought 

 it desirable, that these documents should be placed on permanent 

 record in their entirety, in justice to their author, who to some 

 extent appreciated the high distinctions and the great importance 

 gained by this ancient Cornish family in the Tudor and Stuart 

 reigns, and wished to leave behind him" something historical" of 

 the family, the memory of which was so dear to him. Further, 

 since the town of Falmouth was the creation of the KiUigrews, 

 notably of Sir John Killigrew ^(1605— 1633), Sir Peter 

 Killigrew (1648—1667), Sir Peter Killigrew (1667—1705), these 

 memorials of the relations between the townsmen and the lords 

 of the manor, on which the town was built, constitute the basis 

 of the early history of Falmouth and its antecedent village, 

 Smithick, — and therefore ought to be rendered accessible. 



I have stated Mr. Killigrew's motive in writing the 

 Killigrew MS. He compiled the Falmouth MS. as a narrative 

 of the contentions and (in his judgment) of the encroachments 

 of the townsmen for the guidance of Mr. Merrill, who afterwards 

 married Col. West's eldest daughter, and representative of the 

 KilligrcAvs in 1737. This last-named narrative presents the 



* The dates are given of the years of possession. 



