DAME KILLIGBEW AND THE SPANISH SHIP. 283 



At the news whereof the other condemned wretches afore- 

 said at the gallows lamented nothinge more than that they had 

 not the company of that old Jesabel Killigrew at that place 

 as in justice they ought to be (to use their owne words) and 

 begged Almighty G-od that some remarkable judgement might 

 befall her, and her posterity nay and all those that were 

 instrumental in procuring her pardon — and observed hereupon 

 it was that her grandson, Sir William Killygrew, as aforesaid, 

 spent the whole paternal estate of his ancestors, as did Sir 

 Thomas Arundel, Kt., son of Sir John Arundell, aforesaid, and 

 John Hals, Esqr., son of Sir Nicholas Hals, Kt., in their owne 

 tymes, but alas several and public revolutions of this kind ; and 

 all other in wordly affairs are carryed on by the judgement and 

 providence of Grod, not the determination of men, especially 

 such barbarous ruffians as these criminals, though these things 

 happened according to the malefactors direful imprecations in 

 some sense. 



This lady, Jane Killegrew, afterwards gave a silver cup to 

 the Mayors of Penryn, for ever in memory of some kindness in 

 her troubles, received in that Corporation, 1612." 



This curious relic of Lady Jane is preserved at Penryn, 

 with the inscription : "Prom Maior to Maior of the town of 

 Penmarin, when they received me that was in great misery, 

 1633." And it has been generally supposed that the trouble 

 referred to was the before-mentioned attack on the Dutch 

 ships. 



There appears to be but little doubt that Hals was rather a 

 scandalmonger, and also seems to have had some private grudge 

 against the Killigrews, and in fact almost every other Cornish 

 family, and the story has therefore been discredited by sub- 

 sequent historians : but documents in our Public Record Office 

 prove that the tale has a foundation in fact, and I propose to 

 give a short account of the capture, from the original papers, 

 and contrast it with the story told by Hals; and in listening to it 

 we must bear in mind that the England of Elizabeth's time was 

 far different to the England of the present day. 



The fires of Smithfield had only just smouldered out in 

 ashes and dust of the noblest and truest in the land, and the 

 thunder cloud of the Spanish Armada was draAving down over 



