212 PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF TRURO, 



of the first Capital Burgesses mider tlie charter of 31 Elizabeth, 

 and was the first steward of the court. Referring to the 

 monuments in St. Mary's church, Hals' remarks — " There is also 

 near the same [i.e. the Eobartes' monument) another funeral 

 monument, erected to the memory of three brothers of the 

 Mitchells, temp. Jas. I., viz. — Thomas, John (the member of 

 parliament) and James, as I remember, who, as the inscription 

 saith, had all 'one Grod, one womb, one tomb.' " This monument 

 was doubtless destroyed during the so-called restorations of the 

 church, which were commenced about 1747. 



The official Blue Book strangely omits the parliament 13 

 Elizabeth, 1571, but Browne Willis gives Henry Killigrew and 

 Vincent Skinner as the members for Truro. Of all the 

 representatives of the town during the long reign of Elizabeth, 

 Killigrew was certainly the most famous. He was a younger 

 brother of Sir John Killigrew, who "re-built Arwenack House, 

 the finest and most costly then in the county." As a pronounced 

 Protestant, he had resisted the attempts of the court party to 

 re-establish popery during the reign of Mary, and was 

 consequently looked upon with disfavour by those who had the 

 power to advance his interests. But in the next reign the 

 Ministers of State were not slow to avail themselves of his 

 eminent talents, and besides being appointed a teller of the 

 exchequer and commander of Nieuwport, he was sent on 

 numerous diplomatic missions, of which the following is a 

 summary — Ambassador to Scotland, 1566; negotiating in 1569 

 for additional ports to be opened in the Baltic ; to France, when 

 Walsingham was sick, 1571, the year of his return for Truro; 

 to Scotland again in 1572, during his second parliament as 

 burgess for Truro, and in 1573; to Berwick in 1574, and to 

 Scotland once more in the succeeding year, to the Low Countries 

 in 1586, and to France, with the Earl of Essex, to assist the 

 King of France, in 1591, for which latter service he was knighted. 

 The Queen's parsimony was a great trouble to him; thus he 

 complains that when on an embassage to the "Princes of 

 Grermanye " his allowance was only forty pounds, not half of the 

 actual cost of the journey. Again, he says, "Now for all these 

 Journeys, Chardges, Daungers, Hurtes, and Losses in the mean- 

 while, and the Tyme used only in Her Majestic' s service, without 



