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between his late son George, and y^ said young Gent, w'='^ match 

 was consummated upon y^ 23rd of February, 1689, and w'^'^ 

 was but in one respect unfortunate, in a very essential circum- 

 stance, w'^'^ was of there being no issue of y* said marriage; 

 for that in all other respects it was a remarkably happy match, 

 and to y** apparent comfort of Sir Peter, his Lady, and his 

 daughter Frances, and y^ said Ann, y^ said Gent proving a dutiful 

 and painstaking son to Sir Peter and his Lady, a good and kind 

 brother-in-law to y° said unhappy Frances, and as good a husband 

 to y^ said Ann, to y^ day of all their deaths, he having y* mortifi- 

 cation to survive them. * Then soon after Sir Peter had so 

 married his said daughter Ann, he with all his family retired from 

 his said troublesome Estate, and y^ daily vexations created him 

 therein (by y^ said Eogers) to reside at London, leaving his Estate 

 and Concerns in Cornwall under y^ care and management of Mr. 

 Quarme, Parson of y^ Parish, a good living w'='' Sir Peter had 

 given him, a man of acute parts and firm in Sir Peter's Interest 

 in opposition to y^ encroachments of y"^ said Rogers." 



[Martin Killigrew goes on to narrate somewhat tediously, how 

 Sir Peter, after some years soliciting at the Treasury for justice 

 to be done him as to Pendennis Castle — till then held on a long 

 lease, at £2000 fine and £12 10s. yearly rent— got the Government 

 to take a lease for 21 years, at £200 a year, without a fine, and 

 retired to Ludlow in 1697. Whilst there he discovered that 

 Mr. Quarme " had become a busy and ungrateful person." The 

 obnoxious Rogers had died a "mere begger," about 1693, and had 

 been succeeded by one Robert Corker, who, after being originally 

 " a poor boy kept in charity," had been taken apprentice by Rogers, 

 and "proving an acute insinuating young man," had made use of 

 his opportunities to assist in his master's ruin. After Rogers's 

 death Corker became master of the Corporation, having, to effect 

 his end, " insinuated himself into a good understanding with Mr. 

 Quarme, — a vain glorious empty busy man,t to the degree of 

 entirely sacrificing Sir Peter's interest and estate to ye said 

 Corker's ambitious views." Quarme was therefore dismissed in 



* This was Martin Killigrew himself. 



f Elsewhere Martin says that Mr. Quarme was the first who levied the 

 Rector's rate outside the borough. 



