162 LORD bttbghley's map of bttdock and mylor. 



originally placed not at the portal, but as finials over the gable 

 ends of the house. The cantilevers over the arched entrance 

 may have supported a coat of arms or hatchment. The stables 

 still remain between the house and the original approach The 

 walled gardens, the ponds, the extensive park, whose railings ran 

 in an irregular line from Swanyjool to Market Strand, all attest 

 the taste and opulence of the Killigrews. 



A few notes on the history of the house are added. In 

 1595, during the occupation of the third John Killigrew, an 

 attempt was made to set fire to Arwenack by Spaniards, in the 

 same year in which Mousehole was burnt by them. (Mr. H. M. 

 Whitley, R.I. C. Journal, Vol. viii, 292-7). The whole of the S. W. 

 coast was in constant terror of depredations in early times : forts 

 or " baryoades " were either formed or designed, among other 

 landing places, on Tref usis Point and Gyllyngdowne. 



In 1 646 this mansion was burnt by the garrison of Pendennis 

 Castle on strategical principles to prevent its occupation by Sir 

 Thomas Fairfax and his army. That its demolition was not 

 complete, as many writers have assumed, we gather from an 

 extract from an officer's letter, quoted by Capt. Pasfield Oliver 

 (^Pendennis and St. Mawes, p. 40). ''In the way (to Helford) 

 the generall went into Arwinkle, Sir Peter Kiliigrew's house, 

 where and in the village of Pennicomquicke we had quartered 

 two Regiments for the blocking up of Pendennis Castle on the 

 land side. The day before the Generall sent thither those two 

 Pegiments, the enemiein the Castle set on fire Sir Peter's house, 

 and burned a great part thereof downe to the ground, and would 

 have done the like with Pennicomequicke, had not our men's 

 unexpected comming prevented them in the Castle." Arwenack 

 house was then occupied, and the manor possessed, by Lady Jane 

 Bluett, the divorced wife of John Killigrew. Sir John had 

 died in 1686 ; Sir Peter (The Post) his younger brother and heir 

 was employed by the Court in foreign missions, and yet had 

 interest with the Parliament in 1647, and with Cromwell in 

 1655. 



The besiegers ravaged the gardens, bouse, and park in con- 

 structing lines of trenches and batteries, so that the owners, 

 Dame Jane and her second husband, Capt. Prancis Bluett of 



