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Trevethan, were reduced to great poverty. Depositions to that 

 effect were made by credible witnesses, when Capt. Bluett was 

 sued in 1647, as a delinquent Royalist, to compound for his estate 

 before the Commissioners in Groldsmiths' Hall, London. {R.I. C. 

 Journal, Vol. ix. p. 51.) 



In the garden between the banqueting hall and the ancient 

 stables, the surface has been raised 4 ft. 6 in. above the original 

 level of a paved court-yard and gutter. Mr. Mitchell in 1883 

 examined two pits, indicated by dotted circles in Plate E, which 

 he sunk in search of an underground passage, and found through- 

 out charred and burnt materials, wood, lime, ornamental plaster- 

 ing, slates and tiles : doubtless these are the debris of the havoc 

 made in 1646. 



The Killigrews continued to reside at Arwenack until Capt. 

 M. Lister Killigrew's death in 1745. The banqueting hall was 

 not rebuilt ; and the modern additions at the north and south 

 sides were not made before 1786 (as appears from a sketch of 

 that date), and therefore not by the Killigrews. 



The following stanzas occur in the Voluhiad, a satirical 

 poem written in 1796, in reference to Arwenack : — 



" To spoil this wall a ruthless Vandal came, 

 Sprung from the waves, and Tauro was his name." 



" A venerable wall for ages stood, — 

 The only vestige of an old abode." 



A MS. note on the poem records, that a few years 

 previously a greater part of the house had been taken down and 

 rebuilt; the part, whose loss is deplored, was a 'noble battlemented 

 tower with a battlemented wall attached to it.' This was prob- 

 ably the central tower over the water-gate, with the flanking 

 walls. 



The ancient house is readily distinguished from the modern 

 additions by the stone mullions of the window frames. 



I should state in conclusion that this map (Plate A) has been 

 carefully copied by Mr. Mitchell, of the Manor Office, Arwenack, 

 through the favour of the Town Council of Penryn, from a 

 clear copy, which has been long in their possession : the original 

 in the British Museum is in good preservation, but the outline 

 of Glasney College is blurred by constant folding. 



