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said Eobert falsely styled upon his monument in "West- 

 minster Abbey of Arwenack. There is now remaining of 

 this younger House only one Grandson of the last 

 mentioned Henry, and 2 sonsf of the said Charles, to 

 whom I am a stranger or desire to be thought so, and not 

 one penny of estate from amongst them all, but about 

 £500 a year, which came by the said Charles's wife in 

 Suffolk. 



n.— COPT OF THE FALMOUTH MANUSCRIPT, (A.D. 1738). 



MINUTES FOR A HISTORY of the CORPORATION of FALMOUTH. 

 To JOHN MERRILL, Esq. 



(The text tas been reprinted from the imperfect copy of the Wade MS., as 

 printed in the Western Daily Mercury, November 21, 1878 ; the corrections (in 

 small type) and residue of the text have been added from Mr. Genn's transcript. 

 Many words are open to doubt, from the ignorance and carelessness of both copy- 

 ists. Mr. Killigrew's own slovenly and ungrammatical composition makes the task 

 of emendation unreliable). 



Sir, — In respect to the memory of the family of Arwenack 

 (the Killigrews), as well as in regard to you, invested with part of 

 y® estate, I hold myself obliged to lay the following before you, 

 and pray the same may C^^ma?!"^) be taken as a further answer to 

 yours of the 11 th of July past, as I promised you might expect 

 from me ; and indeed it was the being obliged to make you such 

 further answer, as puts me upon writing so largely as the 

 subject requires. 



In your said letter you say — 

 " That the Corporation dining with you, they attack'd you very warmly upon 

 ye point of their having no revenue, alledging it to be the single instance of that 

 kind [MS. ye kind] in the whole kingdom ; and that they were oblig'd to defray 

 not only [MS. omits ' not only '] all the expences incident to the body, and all the 

 treats and entertainments upon rejoycing days, chusing mayors, &c., out of their 

 own pockets, but were also oblig'd to pay a modus in their Corporate capacity 

 tho' every one of them paid his own tythe in full besides, which was a very great 

 hardship ; so desir'd a grant of the market to enable them to bear it ; and further 

 the Church-yard is now so full, that they can scarce bury a corps without move- 

 ing another, praying hard to have a spot of waste ground given them, &c." 



+ Charles (ob. 1756) of Thornham Hall, Suffolk, (his mother's property) 

 and Giuldford, Lieut, of Dragoons, (ob. 1751.) 



