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to wMch. the more celebrated Hugh Peters, Cromwell's chaplain, 

 was related.'''' "In the name of the everlasting God, Amen, the 

 twenty sixth of October one thousand six hundred fifty foure. I 

 Thomas Peters Preacher of the Gospell of Jesus Christ for 

 twentie yeares att Myloure in Cornwall though with little success 

 to soules, being in good and perfect memory (blessed be my 

 Lord Jesus), though having some of deathes sentences upon my 

 body. Doe hereby constitute this my last Will and Testament as 

 foUoweth : Item, I bequeath my eternall soule unto the bosome 

 of the Lord Jesus Christ, m.y never fayleing advocate and 

 Redeemer, who hath opened a fountaine of his bloued to washe 

 it fi'om all sinne and all uncleanness, . . . . And my body to 

 be interred over against my studdy window neare the brow of the 

 hill neare the pathway to the diall." Then follow provisions for 

 his children, legacies, &c., and a declaration that the will was 

 written by one Thomas Deacon " fi-om Mr. Peters his own mouth 

 and by his desire." He died just afterwards at the age of 57 

 years. The exact position of the grave is not known. Thomas 

 Tregosse, son of William Tregosse, of St. Ives, in Cornwall (by 

 Priscilla, eldest daughter of Wm. Ceely of that place) took his 

 B.A degree at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1655. From 1657 to 

 1659 he was curate of his native town. In October of the latter 

 year he became Vicar of Mylor and Mabe, from which he was 

 ejected on the 24th of August, 1662. In September of the 

 following year he preached in his own house at Kergilliack in 

 Budock. He founded Baptist chapels at Trelevah near Penryn 

 and at Falmouth. He seems to have been a man of strong 

 convictions, as a result of which he was in gaol at Launceston 

 and Bodmin no less than three times during the years 1665, 1666, 

 and 1667, the total period of his imprisonment being about 

 twelve months. He died at Penryn, 18th January, 1671, and 

 was buried at Mabe. His misfortunes, which seem to have 

 arisen entirely from his having been properly ejected fi'om a 



* Thougli related to the family, Hugh's name was not originally Peters, 

 which name he assumed. He was the son of Thomas Dirk wood by his wife 

 Martha, formerly Treffry. The Fowey Parish Register contains an entry — 

 " Hugh son of Thomas Dirkwood was baptised the 27th June, 1598," and in the 

 margin some later hand has written " Otherwise Hugh Peters, Chaplain and 

 adviser of Oliver Cromwell, beheaded by Charles II. on Tower Hill," 



