186 THE KILLIGREW MANUSOEIPT. 



more copious and less open to criticism : but as they stand, they 

 are the main source of the early history of Falmouth, and will 

 be esteemed accordingly. 



The following estimate of the family of Killigrew, which 

 was written by Hals, p. 126, doubtless represents the deliberate 

 sense of their contemporaries : — " The stock is ancient; and divers 

 of the Branches have grown to great Advancement in Calling and 

 Livelihood by their greater Deserts. — Though I could never 

 understand that any of them ever serv'd their Prince or Country 

 in any publick Capacity, as Parliament-men, Justices of the 

 Peace, or Sheriffs for this County ; out of a politick and secret 

 Eeserve to themselves, as not thinking it prudent to do other 

 Men's Business at their own proper Cost and Charges, or to be 

 puffed up or pleased with the tickling Conceit of making them- 

 selves popular in their Country with any office they did not get 

 money ly. Wherefore, generally, they were Courtiers, and 

 Favourites of their Princes, and got many Boons thereby of great 

 value," 



I.— COMPLETION OF THE KILLIGEEW MS. 



{See JoutJial of the K.I.C. No. XII, April, 1871, on the Family of Killigrew, by 

 R. N. Worth). 



UNPUBLISHED PORTIONS. 



(The text has been re-printed from the printed copy of the Wade MS. ; the 

 corrections inserted in small type, are extracted from a transcript made by 

 Mr. Mitchell, in 1871, from two old books in the Arwenack Manor Office, which 

 have since disappeared.) 



In the general it is to be wished that families would make 

 and preserve annalls of the various incidents happening to them, 

 as what may be help to their behaviour in the world, and a 

 caution and guarde against such misfortunes as they might 

 thereby see befel their ancestors. This family in question in the 

 original and younger house hath been both attended with un- 



