SOME EXTINCT CORNISH FAMILIES. 
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if they ever burnt any witches there. In leaving this subject I 
should like just to quote the Rt. Hon. Leonard Courtney's words 
in London at the meeting of Cornishmen held last Saturday 
(March 1st), when he said of Cornwall, "Her people were full 
of integrity, frugal were they, and bred in the austere and 
antique fashion." 
It is necessary for the purposes of this paper that I should 
refer to two only of the families previously mentioned, because 
to prove interesting to anyone but a " dry-as-dust " genealogist, 
family biography must necessarily relate memorable incidents, 
rather than act as a mere catalogue of names and dates. Genealogy 
has always been considered a dry study, because it deals so much 
in figures. It should be remembered, however, that behind the 
bare statement of names and dates lie many a life of trial, many 
a tale of tears, of blighted hopes, and the ever-repeated ending 
of each mortal record, over which the antiquary may fittingly 
sigh as he marshals forth the family story in the skeleton form 
of what is termed a pedigree. 
I purpose, as briefly as possible, to give an outline of the 
histories of the families of Killigrew of Arwenack, Falmouth, 
and of Godolphin of Godolphin, near Helston. 
I have laid on the table a manuscript history of the Killigrews, 
which appears to have been compiled in 1738, by Martin Lister 
Killigrew, Esquire, the last representative — and that by marriage 
— of this ancient family. The contents of the manuscript were 
published by me in 1878. Until very recently I was unaware that 
Mr. Worth had published, so far back as in 1871, a portion of this 
manuscript from a copy derived from an original not then known 
to exist. Some valuable notes, and a letter from the above 
Martin Killigrew, accompanied Mr. Worth's publication in the 
Transactions of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 
I was also unaware that Mr. H. M. Jeffery, F.R.S., had repub- 
lished the full text of my publication and notes, collated with 
Mr. Worth's and with another copy, in the same journal for 1887. 
Many writers — including the Messrs. Lysons — have referred to 
this manuscript, and everyone concluded that no original existed. 
I believe that the one produced is not only contemporary, but an 
original manuscript. It is very probable that a duplicate also 
existed. 
Mr. Jeffery runs away with the hasty conclusion that mine is 
