_Seal of Killigrew, and Genealogy of the Killigrew
Family_.--"BURIENSIS" (No. 13. p. 204.) is informed that the arms
on the seal at Sudbury are certainly those of a member of the old
Cornish house of Killigrew. These arms, impaled by those of Lower,
occur on a monument at Llandulph, near Saltash, to the memory of Sir
Nicholas Lower, and Elizabeth his wife, who died in 1638. She was a
daughter of Sir Henry Killegrewe, of London, and a near relative, I
believe, of the Master of the Revels.
While on this subject, I beg to put a query to your genealogical
readers. The double-headed eagle, the bordure bizantée, and the
demilion charged with bezants, are all evident derivations from the
armorial bearings of Richard, titular king of the Romans, Earl of
Cornwall, &c., second son of King John. The family of Killegrewe is
of venerable antiquity in Cornwall. What I wish to ascertain is, the
nature of the connection between the family and that unfortunate
"king." Was it one of consanguinity, or merely one of feudal
dependence?