196 THE FALMOUTH MANUSCRIPT. 



And to make you anything of a regular answer, I see a 

 necesssity of attempting sometliing towards a history of this 

 Corporation, from the procuring the Charter downe to this time 

 77 years, which must consist chiefly of gross facts, I being cap^ 

 able of little more ; nor should I attempt so much, were not my 

 personal character much at stake upon the question ; and thank 

 you for giving me this opportunity of supporting it, however 

 laborious in these, my very late days {Born A.D. 1666). As 

 thus, — 



*In the year 1648, Sir Peter Killigrew the first, coming into 

 the estate, was (? not) pleased with the rem.aining pittance of 

 inheritance, reduced from six thousands (^oiindT) ^ year to eighty 

 pounds a year, as appeared by inquisition, taken but a few 

 years before, upon Parliamentary sequestration, and set about 

 cherishing of it, and soon after the Eestoration of Charles the 

 Second, being of interest for greater matters, unadvisedly moved 

 for, and obtained this Charter ; expressly and at large mention'd 

 to be granted solely and meerly for his services to the said 

 King, and his father, as most amply appears by the said Charter 

 For him to name a body of men to compose the said Corporation, 

 such as he should judge proper ; and from making (making ) them 

 all of his own simple honest tenants, he had little reason to 

 apprehend from thence his enslaving himself to a body of 

 insolent tenants, as soon after was the case. 



Mr. Bryan Rogers, coming into the great house (Corke 's) by 

 marrying Ambrose Jening's daughter, (jen^ngs's) who had built it, 

 soon put himself at the head of, and made himself master of, the 



* Note. — The picture of Sir John Killigrew, of Queen Elizabeth's time, who 

 made the first breach in ye Arwenack estate, then very considerable, leaving it in 

 a very shattered condition to his son, Sir John Killigrew, of King James and 

 Charles the First's time, very good but unfortunate man in his marrying a very 

 wicked woman, who was ruined in a tedious prosecution of a divorce from her, 

 which he obtained, and dying without issue, left the estate to his next brother 

 Sir Peter Killigrew the first, whose son Sir Peter the second raised it again, but 

 in a very small degree to what it had been. 



The story of the above first Sir John, his being saved from drowning, as 

 described in ye picture, we have but from tradition, which also says he married 

 the woman, but is sileat as to who she was ; but his dress shows he was a person 

 valuing himself upon his clothes. (Note taken from Wade MS). 



