'Orinda (Albion's and her sex's grace) Owed not her glory to a beauteous face, It was her radiant _soul_ that shone within; Which struck a lustre through her outward skin; That did her lips and cheeks with roses dye, Advanced her height, and sparkled in her eye. Nor did her sex at all obstruct her fame, But higher 'mong the stars it fixed her name; What she did write, not only all allowed, But every laurel to her laurel bowed.' Perhaps too much has been said of the virtues and graces of this chaste and accomplished lady; but it must be remembered that women such as she were rare in the days in which she lived and wrote. Nor must we forget that we are far removed from the sphere of that _personal_ influence, the attractions of which are so powerful, and which probably contributed in no small degree to the fame of this fair scion of the Killigrews. It was written on her epitaph, according to Ballard: 'Abi, Viator, et plange, Si eam plangi oporteat Cui, tam pié morienti, Vel Cœlites plauserint.' Even at this distance of time, it is delightful to think that she left a wicked world and age before a single spot had dimmed the lustre of her widely admired, but unsullied, fame: 'Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.' FOOTNOTES: [51] This monument was originally placed on a site which overlooked on the one hand the remains of the family mansion, and on the other the little lake--formerly an arm of the sea, and known in Leland's time as 'Levine Prisklo,'--which was once the well-filled swannery of the Killigrews. It was moved in 1836 to make way for the houses now known as 'Grove Place;' and again in 1871, to its present appropriate site opposite the Arwenack Manor-office. [52] The town arms of Falmouth, modified of course, are derived from those of Killigrew. The arms of the _Devonshire_ Killigrews are gules, three mascles on. This latter coat appears on some woodwork in St. Budock Church, and on the brass of Thomas Killigrew, to which reference will presently be made. [53] I am somewhat inclined to think that this _may_ be the Thomas Killigrew who died at Biscay, in Aragon. He married twice--Johanna Herry and Jane Darrell; possibly there may be some mistake in the Christian name of the latter lady. Perhaps the same Thomas who is mentioned in the Journals of Roger Machado, of an embassy to Spain and Portugal, in 1488, as having entertained the traveller, whom stress of weather drove into Falmouth harbour; and as having bequeathed, in the year 1500, one hundred marks for the rebuilding of St. Budock Church. In the autumn of 1882, whilst restoring St. Gluvias Church, the workmen came upon some leaden coffins in good preservation, which were supposed to contain the remains of members of the Killigrew family. The coffins were not opened.