THE KILLIGRE-W MANTTSORIPT. 187 



commom vicissitudes, yet without imputation of treason or other 

 capital crime,"^ which, hath not been a common case in so antient 

 a family. 



The very name, together with the distant and out-of-the-way 

 county of their residence, makes it apparent that they were of 

 the most antient of our people. What their arms were before 

 is uncertain, but from y* Herald's OflS.ce we know that in the 

 time of Eichard Duke of Cornwall, brother of Henry III, and 

 King of the Romans, he gave to (ga^them) Ralph de Killigrew the 

 spread eagle, with the border of Cornwall,! which undeniably 

 denotes the family to be of consideration, so high back as those 

 antient times ; and until and in the time of Henry YIII, they were 

 still possessed of the manour of Killigrew, in that county, though 

 some time before they had married the daughter in C^^^h^I?:^'') heir of 

 Arwenack, and had removed their residence thither when 

 Pendennis Castle ("^c^Se*') was built by the said King, (^^h7^^) and 

 John Killigrew, Esq., made Captain thereof, and so continued to 

 the time of his death, in the 9th of Elizabeth, and in the year of 

 our Lord, 1567, having rebuilt Arwenack House, the finest and 

 most costly then in the county, as to this time in part appears by 

 the stately hall window (windows) thereof, still standing, J and was 

 possessed of one of the largest estates in the county, his lands 

 on (^thcire^) those parts extending from Arwenack, to Helford 

 passage, and had the propriety of sixteen parish tythes, the 

 whole now in value to the several proprietors £6,000 a year, 

 and must have been a great estate in that gentleman's time. 



Sir John Killigrew, Knt., son of the said John Killigrew, 

 Eaq., succeeded him in his estate, and by the favour of Queen 

 Elizabeth in the said government of Pendennis, dying governor 



* John Killigrew in 1588, was a " notorious pirate " {Cornish Worthies, p. 

 121), and Dame Mary Killigrew, his mother, in 1582 committed piracy and 

 probably instigated to murder ; the actual criminals were executed. — (Jour, 

 Boy. Inst. Cor., vol. vii, p. 284). Probably Mr. M. L. Killigrew had never 

 heard of these outrages. 



f "Hals took the arms to indicate the descent of the family from the Duke 

 through his concubine, Joan de Valletorta." — B. N. Worth. See also Garnish 

 Worthies, p. 116, on the different coats of arms borne by the Devonshire and 

 Cornish Killigrews. 



X See the notice of Arwenack House, as it appears to-day, in this number of 

 the Journal, 



