192 THE KLLLIGREW MANTTSOEIPT. 



some years of the time was taken up in soliciting at the 

 Treasury for Justice to be done him as to Pendennis 

 Castle(his Inheritance), till then(^^irea")heldby a long Lease 

 by his Ancestors granted to the Crown on £2,000 fine, and 

 £12 10s. yearly Rent, in which (^pf/^-^^;,,"') pretensions he 

 met with much trouble and opposition from those in post 

 tho' no man in his station as D'' Lieut, of his county and 

 Justice of the Peace, was more exposedly usefull on the 

 coming in of King William than himself, yet after meerly 

 from his pacific life and being a Steady Member of the 

 Church, he was frowned upon, which with the affliction of 

 the loss of his son made him careless of his worldly affairs, 

 and in length of time having prevail 'd (from his apparent 

 right) upon the Lords of the Treasury to take a 21 years' 

 Lease of him, of the said Pendennis Castle at £200 yearly 

 rent without ffine. In order to his greater retirement from 

 the world he with his said whole ffamily left London and 

 took up his residence at Ludlow, in Shropshire, in the year 

 1697, where, from his correspondence with the said Mr. 

 Quarme his Steward, he found the man greatly altered, 

 and become a very busy and ungratefull person to so 

 good and generous a patron, from his being so long left 

 without controul Master of the Estate, and in particular 

 from the following circumstances. 



The said Rogers, after so long reigning Tyrant of 

 the Corporation of Falmouth to the ruin of Sir Peter's 

 estate, upon all occasions so far as in him lay, but to his 

 own ruin, dying a mere beggar about the year 1693 

 childless, and leaving a Widow to subsist chiefly by 

 Charity, and with whom the said Mr. Quarme had all 

 along been (^itverT) ^^ enmity, and from thence kept 

 to Sir Peter's interest. But the said Rogers being 

 dead as aforesaid, and Mr. Robert Corker succeeding the 

 said Rogers in his great house, pride ,* and enmity to Sir 



* 'Corker's great house ' and gardens, on the site of Mulherry Square, are 

 drawn in the House-map of Falmouth, — Plate B. 



The family of Corker had as good standing as the Killigrews. See note on 

 the Falmouth MS. 



