THE KILLIGKE-W MANTJSCRIPT. 193 



Peter, and so reigning for more tlian 35 years, requires 

 my setting forth, the said Corker from his original, a poor 

 boy kept in Charity by John Newman, his Mother's 

 brother, an attorney, who being employed as such by the 

 said Eogers, prevailed on him to take the said Corker 

 apprentice, who proving an acute insinuating young man, 

 whose Master, Eogers, going behind hand in his estate, 

 from whence the said Corker had and took his oppor- 

 tunities of further ruining his Master's affairs, soon after 

 whose death he became a great man, purchased his late 

 Master's great house, turning (th^f,t?jg\^ith) with little cere- 

 mony his late very indulgent Mistress out of it, and to the 

 more easily making himself Master of the Corporation, he 

 insinuated himself into a good understanding with Mr. 

 Quarme (a vain-glorious empty busy man) ( buSness^man ) 

 to the degree of entirely sacrificing Sir Peter's interest 

 and estate to the said Corker's ambitious views, which 

 being so apparent as to make it necessary for Sir Peter 

 (in the beginning of the year 1700) to go down to 

 Falmouth, dismiss the said Mr. Quarme from his Steward- 

 ship, and put in his place one* more trustworthy, and, 

 when done, he returned to his family at Ludlow, where 

 he enjoyed a happy retir'd life without sickness until 

 the 8th January, 1704, when he died suddenly overcome 

 with phlegm, leaving his estate to his Lady for life, 

 and was carried to and buried in the vault at Falmouth 

 with his father and childrenf 



On a brass-plate on Sir Peter Killigrew's coffin, the inscription runs : — 

 Petrus Killigrew mil. et 

 Bur. (Bar.?) filius Petri Killigrew 

 Mil. ob. apud Ludlow in 

 Com. Salop. 8 Jan. 1704 

 Anno ^tatis sue (ee ?) 71. 



[^Page 281, par. 2, last line, after as unfortunate"] In justice 

 to the memory of the younger family, who from and in 



* His son-in-law, the author, Martin Lister Killigrew. 



t The Wade MS. ends here, with these words, evidently suppositious : " 



until the 8th of Jan., 1704, wlien he expired, and with him ended the male line of 

 his ancient family." Another argument is thus furnished against the claim that 

 the Wade MS. is original. 



