56 KILLIGBEW MANTJSCBIPTS. 



entertained at Arwenack by the late Sir John Killigrew, the only 

 house then standing upon the place ; saying that the goodness of 

 the Harbour was such, as to be defective in nothing, but the 

 want of shelter for seafaring men ; and put Sir John upon 

 building to such purpose, as in which he and his posterity had 

 the well known success." 



The Pyramid or Killigrew Monument was originally built 

 in the G-rove adjoining Arwenack House, it was removed in 

 1836, to the top of the hill towards the Bay, and in 1871 was 

 again taken down and erected in Arwenack Grreen, opposite 

 Arwenack House, where it now stands. 



Mr. Mitchell has kindly furnished me with the following 

 account of its final removal, which is copied from a book now at 

 the Manor office. 



" A Document relating to the Killigrew Monument was 

 written on parchment and sealed up in a bottle, and then built 

 into the interior masonry of the said monument (about half way 

 up) on its erection on Arwenack Green opposite the Manor office 

 on the 19th July, 1871. 



The Document read as follows ; — 



The Killigrew Monument. 



" This Pyramid was originally built in the Grove near 

 Arwenack, A.D. 1737 — 1738 from the design and at the cost of 

 Mr. Martin Killigrew (son-in-law of the second and last Sir Peter 

 Killigrew) who was sometime Recorder of Falmouth, and for 

 several years Steward of the Arwenack Estate ; His original 

 name was Lister, — he was born in 1666 at Listen, Staffordshire 

 and whUst a Captain or Lieutenant at Pendennis Castle, under 

 John Earl of Bath he became acquainted with the Killigrews, 

 and upon his marriage, with Ann, Sir Peter's youngest daughter, 

 he took the name of Killigrew ; He survived all the members of 

 the Arwenack family with the exception of his grand nieces, 

 through the younger of whom, the present and first Earl of 

 Kimberley, inherits the Arwenack Estate. The object in the 

 erection of this Pyramid does not appear veiy clear unless^ 

 (which is not improbable) it was intended as a family monument 

 of the Killigrews ; Mr. Martin Killigrew in several letters to 

 Mr. Abraham Hall, the then Steward at Arwenack, gave full 



