318 TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
not original, because he is able to supply some trifling differences 
from copies obtained from two old books formerly at Arwenack, 
but which have been lost since 1871. He chiefly relies on one or 
two omissions in my printed copy, which were caused by hurried 
transcription, and by the necessity of suiting the publication to a 
newspaper. If he had asked to view my manuscript, he would 
have saved himself from much labour and some doubts. It is 
curious that he gives the preference to my text, and prints it 
in extenso — occupying twenty pages of the journal — while he uses 
the other copy only as an occasional reference. Unfortunately 
the last three or four pages of my manuscript are lost, and he 
supplies these from his copy. 
It will be seen that the writing and paper of the manuscript are 
evidently those of the period; viz., 1738. I am convinced that 
this manuscript was written by Mr. Edward Snoxell, then secre- 
tary in London for Martin Lister Killigrew, Esquire, and at the 
latter's dictation, while the note pasted into one of the two books 
is, I believe, in Killigrew's own hand, being written in the 
scholarly style of the seventeenth century. Killigrew probably 
did not write any manuscript history in his own hand, as at that 
period he was very old, and we know, used his secretary for writing 
nearly everything. The writing appears to be Snoxell's, from 
other writing of his which I have. He was then twenty-nine 
years of age, and removed to Falmouth in the same year. In 
1759 his daughter, Penelope, married a relation of mine who 
resided at Falmouth, and the manuscript has remained in the 
family ever since. I have on the table a deed of lease from 
Arwenack Manor, to the same Mr. Snoxell, relating to property 
at Falmouth, and dated 1761. 
As this is a most important Cornish family record, and one 
which is constantly referred to by county historians, I trust I have 
not given too much time to this point. 
The manuscript is addressed to John Merrill, Esquire, who 
married one of the female heiresses of the Killigrews, and it 
gives such a history of the family, and of its intimate business 
affairs, as should be left by the head of every family to those 
who are to succeed him. 
I do not propose to read any of this manuscript, but only to 
refer to it in giving a short history of the main branch of the 
Killigrews. The family of Killigrew originated, or for centuries 
