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any Proffitt of my owne, I have only tolyveby, of HerMajestie's 

 goodness, the Tellership, which was given me before I went to 

 Newehaven." He devoted his leisure to the arts of painting, 

 poetry, and music, and to the study of heraldry and antiquities. 

 His first wife — Katherine — youngest daughter of Sir Anthony 

 Cooke, of Giddy Hall, Essex, was one of four sisters, who were 

 reputed to be the most learned ladies in England ; his second 

 wife — Jael de Peigne, to whom he was married 7th November, 

 1590, survived him, and afterwards married the Et. Rev. George 

 Downame, bishop of Derry. Carew, writing a few months 

 previous to his death, thus refers to him, ' ' After ambassades and 

 messages and many other profitable employments of peace and 

 warre, in his prince's service, to the good of his country, he had 

 made choyce of a retyred estate, and, reverently regarded by all 

 sorts, placeth his principal contentment in himselfe, which to a 

 life so well acted, can in no way bee wanting." He died 16 

 March, 1602-3. 



Skinner, Killigrew's colleague in 1571, was a member of a 

 Lincolnshire family; he seems to have been of a roving dis- 

 position, for he represented in various parliaments boroughs 

 ranging from Borough-bridge, in Yorkshire, to St. Ives, in 

 Cornwall, for which latter town he was elected in 39 Elizabeth, 

 1597. 



In 1572, Oliver Carminow was associated with Henry 

 Killigrew in the representation of Truro. This Carminow 

 managed to waste nearly the whole of his immense fortune, 

 and three years after his death, Fentongollan with its "halls, 

 parlours, and dining rooms, its notable tower and bell, three 

 stories high," and its two large gate houses at each end of the 

 town, was sold by his daughters to help to pay his debts. 



Six more parliaments were held during Elizabeth's reign, 

 but of the burgesses who represented Truro, not one sat in more 

 than one parliament, and of the twelve, only two, or possibly 

 three, were Cornish men. Michael Hickes (1584), supposed to 

 have been of Trevethick, in St. Ewe, was secretary to Lord 

 Burleigh, and an ancestor of the present Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. 

 In the troublous times preceding the Spanish Armada, John 

 Stanhope represented the town (1586); he was father of the 



