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human prudence, a promising and suitable match, with a portion 

 of J5000, four of w^^ Sir Peter took, and allowed y^ son to take 

 y"^ other £1000 to himself with a rent charge of £300 a year, and 

 a jointure of £350 a year to y^ Young Lady, free of all taxes, 

 Consumated in May, 1684, but proved a very unhappy Match, 

 from y^ joining Lady's taking more after her mother than her 

 father, bringing much Sorow at Arwenack House, and whose ill 

 temper occasioned her husband's seeking and keeping Company 

 abroad more than otherwise he would have done. With y*^ like 

 good prospect, y^ next year, 1685, Sir Peter marryed his daughter 

 Frances ^ to y'' full as unfortunately as he had marryed his son, 

 who, on y^ 20th March, 1687, was most basely murdered by a 

 stab in his back, in a Tavern at Penryn.t 



"This loss of his only son, and hopes of his family (in a way 

 of speaking) broke Sir Peter Killigrew's heart, so as never after 

 to take delight in anything but his Lady and two daughters, all 

 three remarkably good and tender of him to his dying day. But 

 Mr. Rogers, Lord of the Corporation, took all advantages of such 

 Sir Peter's deplorable case, and raised perpetual Vexations to him 

 amongst his tenants * ^' *' '^\ 



"About y*^ latter end of y^ year 1688 Sir Peter's daughter 

 Frances, being cast off in a very unaccountable manner by her 

 husband. Sir Peter took her home, with her only child Mary, and 

 seeing no hopes of issue Male from that Marriage, nor any com- 

 fortable hopes from his other Granddaughter by his late Son, Ann 

 by name, from her education under her wretched Mother, Sir 

 Peter then first entertained y'= thoughts of marrying his youngest 

 daughter, Ann, to a young Gentleman, a Soldier of Fortune, 

 induced thereto from y^ great intimacy which had subsisted 



raust evidently be taken cumgrano. He was a man of strong prejudices, a bosom 

 friend of George Killigrew, and since his account of the manner in which 

 the latter was killed is hardly borne out by other evidence, it is quite possible 

 that the bad temper (if it were so) of the wife arose from the conduct of the 

 husband, instead of, as he puts it, the reverse being the case. 



• To Mr. Richard Erisey. 



f He was killed in a duel with one Vincent, a banister, who was tried 

 for the offence at jLaunceston, and acquitted, but died not long after, ac- 

 cording to Hals, of an atrophy, caused by the sad event prejdng on his mind. 

 Hals further states, that the death of yoimg Killigrew was considered by the 

 people of the district as a judgment upon the family for the murder of the 

 Spanish merchants by Jane Killigrew, already noted. 



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