SOME EXTINCT CORNISH FAMILIES. 
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The above statements are untrustworthy in almost every 
particular. There were nine Killigrews who represented various 
Cornish seats in twenty -six different Parliaments, according to 
Mr. W. P. Courtney's Parliamentary History of Cornwall, besides 
the fact that they were D.L.'s and J.P.'s in many reigns. 
APPENDIX B 
Mr. A. J. Jewers, f.s.a., has pointed out to me that in 
Fowey Church, on a Treffry tomb, the arms of Killigrew are 
given as gules three mascles argent ; but it is singular that this is 
the coat of Arwenack, while the marriage that the coat refers to 
took place prior to the Killigrews marrying the Arwenacks. 
Again, the branch of the Killigrews which settled in Devonshire 
gave the Arwenack coat as their arms instead of their own 
ancient coat. Heraldry seems to have been very irregularly 
attended to by this family. 
ARMS OF THE KILLIGREWS AND GODOLPHINS. 
The family MS. of the Killigrews states that Kichard, Duke of 
Cornwall, and King of the Romans (elected a.d. 1257), gave the 
Killigrews their arms, consisting of the Imperial Roman eagle, 
sable, on a field argent, surrounded by the border of Cornwall, 
sable bezantee. 
We find the same Imperial eagle in the arms of Godolphin — 
coloured argent in a field, gules, and between three fleurs-de-lis of 
the first. 
Both these arms were doubtless bestowed as very special marks 
of distinction by their feudal chieftain, Duke Richard, although 
the occasion is now forgotten. The bezantee border is borne by 
many Cornish families. 
