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still as "Henry Killigrew, esq.," and is de- scribed in the same terms in the writ issued 21 Dec., 1646, to fill his place in Parliament. This last date is almost conclusive evidence that his knightly dignity was then of recent creation, since honours conferred by the King after 22 May, 1642, were refused Parlia- mentary recognition, whence Killigrew in 1646 is still " esq." only at Westminster. The first time we find him dubbed " Sir Henry " in the State Papers is in August, 1646, when among the Royalist defenders of Pendennis Castle who marched forth at its surrender we have " Col. Sir Henry Kille- grew " ; and as " Sir Henry" he is always referred to at the latter part of his career by Clarendon. We may, therefore, fairly assume that he was one of the many " Oxford knights " created by Charles I. when in that city between 1644 and 1646, but of few of whom the specific date of knighthood can be given.

His namesake, the knight of 1625, was clearly some one else. I have, however, found but little respecting him in the State Papers. In September, 1622, allusion is made to " the service and sufferings of Capt. Killigrew and Capt. Ferdinando Carey at Bergen-op-zoom, the preservation of which is mainly due to them." In December, 1624, Capt. Henry Killigrew and Lieut.-Col. Ralph Hopton commanded one hundred foot soldiers pressed in Somerset ; in June, 1626, Sir Henry Killigrew he had been knighted the year before wrote to Secretary Conway from Gravesend that he had re- ceived an order to stay at Gravesend and then to return on his Majesty's permission, which permission he asked might be granted. On 24 July, 1626, he was one of a company of several knights landed at Helvetsluys with the Earl of Essex. On 30 Sept., 1627, the accounts of the Cofferers of the Household for the year 30 Sept., 1626, to 30 Sept., 1627, include, amongst other items, expenses for maskers at Sir Henry Killigrew's wedding at Whitehall (S. P. Dom. supp. vol. 1625-49). Unfortunately the bride is not named. In March, 1629, in a petition one Capt. Degorie Collins speaks of having been employed as sergeant under Sir Henry Killigrew in Count Mansfield's expedition ; and in April, 1627, in a List of Reformadoes, amongst the captains named is " Capt. Broad erip, General Lieut, to Sir Henry Killigrew, now deceased " thus affording an approximate date of the knight's death.

Perhaps these few particulars may enable some of your Cornish correspondents to identify this knight. The Killigrew pedigrees

in print are far from exhaustive ; that in Vivian's ' Visitations of Cornwall ' is the fullest I am acquainted with, but it certainly omits this knight altogether, and is defective in other respects. W. D. PINK.

Winslade, Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

GENERAL SIB ROBERT WILSON. I should be obliged if any reader of * N. & Q.' could put me in touch with any of Sir Robert's representatives. In his will, dated 1847, he names his son Belford Hinton Wilson, Charge d' Affaires and Consul- General in her Majesty's service, and his grandson Robert Belfora Wallis Wilson, as the representative successors to his family papers.

JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

CELTIC AND COPTIC MONASTICISM. As is well known, Egypt was the mother-country of monasticism, whence it spread to other lands. Can any of your readers direct me to a volume in which the connexion between Celtic monasticism and Egypt is described ? I understand that there are incidents known to historians of monasticism cf Irish monks visiting Egypt, and of Egyptian monks visiting Ireland. A volume was published some years ago dealing with this matter, but I cannot trace it. It was reviewed, I think, in The Contemporary. Dr. Whitley Stokes had some connexion with it, either as author or as reviewer. The loan of this volume for a short time would be a great kindness to me. J. WILLCOCK.

Lerwick, Shetland.

JOHN MURHALL. I possess a large china teapot, with good hand-painted figures, but bearing no mark, on which is inscribed : "John Murhall, Esq., 1762." I shall be glad to learn anything of him.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

CHURCHILL. Can any one supply a table of descendants of John Churchill of Muston, Dorset, third son of William Churchill by his wife Mary Creuse, from which William came John, first Duke of Marlborough, sixth in descent ?

Had Sir Winston Churchill, father of the first Duke, an elder brother named William ? E. F. W.

' RED GAUNTLET ' : RICHARD MENDHAM. In Scott's notes to ' Red Gauntlet ' reference is made to a smuggler, Richard Mendham, who was tried and executed at Jed burgh. Can any reader give the date, and refer me to anv account of Mendham ana his. trial ?

R, M. HOGG.