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John Killigrew, the first captain of Pendennis, had besides 

 other children, three sons, Sir John, Sir Henry, and Sir William, 

 each of whom may be considered to have founded a distinct 

 branch of their family. The author of these memoirs has 

 chiefly written on the first or main branch ; to the third ( ' the 

 younger family ') he has shown scant Justice. It is strange that 

 Mr. M. L. Killigrew has omitted to mention the second branch, 

 which had attained considerable eminence, and was descended 

 from the famous diplomatist of Elizabeth's reign, the above- 

 named Sir Henry Killigrew. The sketches of Sir Henry* and 

 his learned wife Katherine, and of his son Sir Henry, fill 17 

 pages of the Cornish Worthies, pp. 137 — 153. Possibly this 

 branch was extinct in 1737, since the pedigree given by Col. 

 Vivian does not extend beyond the second generation from the 

 first Sir Henry. 



Mr. Tregellas, with the natural instinct of an author and 

 artist, has depicted with special care the careers of the Killigrews 

 of the third branch, who have won a place in the national 

 history, as poets, painters, play-wrights, and soldiers. One can 

 understand why Mr. Lister Killigrew passed lightly over 

 Thomas, as ' more famous for his wit than discretion ' This 

 famous court- jester, and play-wrightf ( Corw^sA Worthies, pp. 160 

 — 174), master of the revels in King Charles II's days, was too 

 disreputable in his life and writings, and too poor. But he must 

 have heard of Mistress Anne Killigrew, " excellent in the two 

 sister arts of poesy and paintings" to whose memory Dry den 

 dedicated (in Johnson's judgment) "the noblest ode that our 

 language has produced," "which fiows with a torrent of 

 enthusiasm." Yet our author is silent. He barely alludes to 

 Robert, her cousin, that his monument in Westminster Abbey 

 falsely styled him of Arwenack. We should have expected 

 from a soldier, sympathy and pride in the gallant end of the 

 Brigadier-General, whose heroism at Almanza is commemorated 

 in the National Mausoleum. 



In conclusion, we have to thank Mr. Lister Killigrew for 

 these veracious memorials of the past : we wish they had been 



* See also the brief notice of Sir Henry by Hals, p. 127. 

 t A well-known "Vw d' esprit of his is given by Hals, p. 130. 



