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present to that body his (Martin Killigrew's) resignation of the 

 Eecordership of Falmouth, &c., &c. His instructions about 

 the erection of the Killigrew Monument or " Pyramid," as he 

 called it, are of peculiar interest. 



On the 29 March, 1737, after giving minute instructions as 

 to the foundations for the Pyramid, he writes — 



" Without having my foolish Vanity Exposed, I may tell 

 you, that in having this projection Carried into a just Execution, 

 as it ought and I hope will be, I pretend to Insist that from the 

 sheltered position and Durableness of the Stone (Manual 

 Violence Excepted) the thing may stand a beauty to the Harbour 

 without Limitation of time, and You and your Posterity have 

 the honour of the Architecture." 



On the I Q**" of the following month, April, he refers to the 

 pyramid as " a darling thing I am never to See, but Shall have 

 much pleasure thereby in liveing to y* being duly informed of its 

 being raised and finished to perfection according to y^ Modell 

 and my directions." 



Again on July 16 of the same he writes — 



" I have already Charged you in the most Special mafier 

 and must now repeat it, and Shall rely on your Care therein, 

 that there be no Inscription in or about the Pyramyd or the 

 whole Grove No, not so much as the Date of the Year : Hoping 

 it may remain a beautifuU embellishment to the Harbour, Long, 

 Long, after my Desireing to be forgott, as if I had never been." 



To complete the reference to the Pyramid, I must quote 

 one from Mr. E. Thomas's " History and Description of the 

 Town and Harbour of Falmouth, " (J. Trathan, 1827, p. 109, 

 note) as follows : 



" The following concerning this pyramid appears in a 

 manuscript written in 1736. 



"This Pyramid as it is termed, but rather ought to be 

 Monument for that 1 understand it was put up in honour of the 

 Harbour ; the original and still nursing Mother of the town, and 

 by her alone supported from its infancy against the mighty. 

 And likewise in honour of the great Sir Walter Eaileigh, who 

 sometime about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, by 

 stress of weather, being put into the harbour and elegantly 



