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things Sir Peter set about was to show y" then Government their 

 Interest for y^ good of y" Revenue, that y'' Custom House ought 

 to be removed from Penryn to his town of Smithick, in w"^*" he 

 y*" more readily succeeded in granting a Lease of a 1000 years to 

 Jennings, y^ Collector of y^ Customs, whereon was built y^ late 

 Corker's house.* From y'' said Commonwealth, or rather Govern- 

 ment, he obtained a patent for a weekly market and two fairs, as 

 also a patent for y^ passage of ferry from Smithick to Flushing — 

 both perpetuities — having before purchased y^ Barton of Trevethan. 

 And it must be owned, very unthinkingly, to equal in figure y^ 

 Rival Town of Penryn, he obtained y^ Charter incorporating y* 

 village of Smithick by y'' name of Falmouth, and not only built 

 y^ Church there, but at a greater labor and expense, obtained an 

 act of Parliament for y" taking y" present parish of Falmouth out 

 of and from y^ then parish of Budock, and in compensation to y^ 

 Parson of Budock, charged y^ Corporation of Falmouth with a 

 perpetual annuity of £3, payable to y*" said Parson of Budock ; to 

 y" payment of w'^'' annuity y^ body and personal members of y^ 

 Corporation expressely by the act are liable to, and none other, 

 altho' they fraudulently take y^ money out of what is yearly raised 

 for y^ Poor. 



" The second Sir Peter also had a younger brother, William 

 by name, bred a Soldier from his youth, in y^ Service and long 

 wars of y^ States of Holland against y^ Spaniards, was their 

 General and y" Commander-in-Chief of y^ Troops they sent in aid of 

 y^ Dane against y^ Swede, gained a complete victory over them, took 

 all their baggage and many hundreds of good horse ; w"^*" y® King 

 of Denmark, much Avanting, bought them of y'' said Gen' Killigrew, 

 to y^ amount of upwards of £3000, and took y'' King of Denmark's 

 Broad Seal for y^ money, paying his Officers and Soldiers out of 

 his own pocket for their Shares of y^ said Horses, but could never 

 obtain any y^ least satisfaction from y® King of Denmark, upon 

 or from such his Broad Seal. The Service over, he returned to 

 his Masters, y^ States of Holland, continued in their service many 

 years, was of service and support to many of his Countrymen 

 during the Exile of King Charles y^ 2nd, as by letters of thanks 

 I have seen under y^ said King's hand. At w""" time, so being in 



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