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Notes
F. Madan, Oxford Books. A Bibliography of Printed Works relating to the University and City of Oxford or Printed or Published There. Volume III (Oxford, 1931), 209. For a bibliography of Henry Killigrew's poems and sermons, see Volume II (1912) of the same work, Oxford Literature 1450-1640, and 1641-1650.
G. C. Boase & W. P. Courtney, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. A Catalogue of the Writings, both Manuscript and Printed, of Cornishmen, and of Works relating to the County of Cornwall, with Biographical Memoranda and Copious Literary References (1874-82, 3 vols); I (1874), 296-297; III (1882), 1259-60.
For instance, in Giles Jacob, The Poetical Register (1719), 157-158; Thomas Whincop, Compleat List of all the English Dramatic Poets (1747), 255; and Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of C. Cibber . . . Fourth Edition (1756), II, 229.
J. S. Johnston, Jr., "Sir William Killigrew's Revised Copy of his Four New Plays: Confirmation of His Claim to The Imperial Tragedy", MP, 74 (1976), 72-74.
It goes without saying that the various later or separate issues and editions of Killigrew's dramatic works, as also of his Midnight Thoughts, pose no problems of authorship and need not be discussed here: see, for instance, K461-462-BC, K464 and K468-BC.
My thanks are due to the staff of the Bodleian Library for having made photocopies and a microfilm of this and other documents available. I am also indebted to the other libraries mentioned below, both in England and the U.S.A., for their kind assistance.
I have been unable to determine either his birth-date or the date of his decease. Sir William's eldest son, Sir Robert, presumably born in 1630, was still alive in 1695, as is evident from the father's will (Public Record Office, P.C.C. Irby 152). William, a former page to Charles II [see C.S.P. Dom. Charles II, 1660-61 (1860), 301], and afterwards a Captain in the Army, was possibly born in 1631 or 1632.
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Mss of the House of Lords, IV (N.S.), 1699-1702 (1908?), 215-218.
John Alden, Wing Addenda and Corrigenda. Some Notes on Materials in the British Museum (Charlottesville, Va., 1958), 15.
Joseph Knight, in the Dictionary of National Biography, XI, 116-117, is very ambiguous in stating, on the one hand, that this pamphlet appeared in 1663, and adding, on the other hand, that it has "no place or date".
The printed British Museum Catalogue (ed. 1962) lists A Proposal, Shewing How . . . under both Sir William Killigrew and Sir James Shaen, and tentatively dates it 1663 and 1690, respectively.
J. Keith Horsefield, British Monetary Experiments 1650-1710 (1960), pp. 156ff., 197, has referred to Killigrew's Humble Proposal as one of the earliest schemes of the kind, mistakenly dating it 1663. Although not first published until about 1690, the proposals were indeed of an earlier date, as is implied by Killigrew's addition, "put in Writing . . . in the Reign of King Charles II when a War was voted against France; but a Peace being concluded, no Money was given . . .". The allusion here may be to February-March, 1678, when the Commons demanded a declaration of war against France, and July 31 of that year, when a peace was finally concluded [see Commons Journals. Vol. IX: 10 Oct. 1667-28 April 1687, pp. 454, 455, 460; and David Ogg, England in the Reign of Charles II (1963, 2 vols), II, 543 ff.] The fact that the younger Killigrew should have written on economic matters as early as 1678 lends plausibility to his authorship of the pamphlet co-signed by Henry Heron in the same year (see above). Of his banking design drafted in 1678, an English manuscript copy may have existed: see Hist. MSS Comm., XIIth Rep., App. IX (1891), p. 132. A French version of it, together with proposals for the erection of a Bank of Credit in France, is contained in Rawl. MS D419, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This manuscript is in Killigrew's own hand, as appears from a comparison of it with the letter he wrote to the Earl of Dorset in August 1692 [see my note "The Earl of Dorset and William Killigrew", N & Q, N.S., 24 (March-April 1977), 131-133]. This French version is more extensive than the English one, numbering 51 densely filled folios in all. Apart from the text of the scheme which was to appear in the Humble Proposal, it also included such matters as "la première mémoire doné aux surintendent par Wm Killigrew concernant l'establissement dune Bancque de Creditt" (f° 1-4r), and a lengthy refutation of any possible objections against the erection of this kind of bank (f° 27r-51r). Whether Killigrew scored any success with his proposals in France and managed to have them put into execution, I have not investigated. At any rate, after having been endorsed by the "Maire, Eschevins et Communautez" of London, on 20 August 1682 (f° 16r), these proposals were also submitted to the French government, being "envoyée a Monsr. l'intendent des finances le 6 de May 1684 samedy au soire" (f° 14r).
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