338 TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
pedigree references are mostly given, and I am glad to see mention 
made of a large number of living Cornishmen (or gentlemen who 
have written about that county), and amongst them the names of 
some members of this Institution. This work is a monumental 
one, and together with the authors' Bibliotheca will render Cornish 
biography an easy matter to future students. My paper to-night 
has aimed at showing, however faintly, the kind of men who 
occupied leading positions in our sister county two or three 
centuries ago, whose names are almost forgotten, and yet whose 
memories deserve to live. We have found them, although living 
under sterner conditions than those which exist for us in our own 
constitutional days (lit up by universal education and a free Press, 
and with unrestricted communications between our own and 
distant countries), yet not very different in their carriage and 
aims to the Englishmen of to-day. They were more picturesque 
in costume, if less finished in manners. If their times were 
fuller of romantic and perilous incidents, they were spared the 
keen and often intense competition of these later days. These 
men, who took so large a part in shaping the history of their times, 
and in framing the laws which guide us now, were of such courage 
in their actions, and such wisdom, in counsel, that with all their 
faults any country would be glad and proud to preserve their 
memories. 
APPENDIX A. 
Mr. Jeffery says, "The following estimate of the family of 
Killigrew, which was written by Hals, page 126, doubtless repre- 
sents the deliberate sense of their contemporaries : 
a 'The stock is ancient, and divers of the Branches have grown 
to great advancement in Calling and Livelihood by their greater 
Deserts, though I could never understand that any of them ever 
served their Prince or country in any public capacity as Parliament 
men, Justices of the Peace, or Sherriffs of this County ; out of a 
politic and secret Reserve to themselves, as not thinking it prudent 
to do other Men's Business at their own proper Cost and Charges, 
or to be puffed up or pleased with the tickling Conceit of making 
themselves popular in their Country with any office they did not 
get money by. Wherefore generally they were Courtiers and 
Favourites of their Princes, and got many boons thereby of great 
value.'" 
