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sent for tlie said tenant, Chapman, shewing him that (™^'tbav'*^) 

 he had no power to suffer Sir Peter so to divert the said 

 water, which would amount to forfeiting his tenement, and that 

 he, the said (^!b:°^l*'the'slid^'') Chapman, must joyn with Sir Yyal 

 to comj)el Sir Peter to restore the said water to its antient course. 

 But the said Chapman, holding by lease for 3 lives his then 

 dwelling-house in the town of Falmouth, and of considerable 

 value, being at a nonplus between his two landlords, he had 

 recourse to the said Newman for his advice and his government ; 

 who told him to go to Draper, the steward, and get a reversionary 

 lease of 3 lives more from Sir Peter, which he might have for a 

 trifling {^fmn^) ^^^, as still it (Ms.-omits) appears by the survey 

 book to have been ; stewards, generally speaking, so farr as they 

 are trusted, never sc'rupleing to betray their masters interest for 

 the sake of making a lease ; which done, he boldly Joined Sir 

 Yyal his landlord against Sir Peter ; so that, unless Sir Peter 

 would submit to become Sir Yyal's tenant at an exorbitant ffine, 

 for the said 30 yards of watercourse, and as extravagant a 

 yearly rent, both running higher (^^th^n°^®) than ever was made 

 of the said whole tenement Mongler ; which usage from a 

 neighbouring gentleman was so resented by Sir Peter, that he 

 chose to suffer the loss or new C^^'^w *'^®) gained water to the 

 Key, and all his cost in building the said mills, millpool, and 

 mill-house, to his damage, as aforesaid, of more than £700.* 

 So industrious was the said Mr. Eogers (^^o^i-f'^) on all 

 occasions to injure Sir Peter, aiming at nothing less than the 

 ruin of the family, for his being the more extensively and firmly 

 lord of the place. 



Further, a little more essentially to the purpose, — in or 

 about the year 1687, Sir Peter became bound with and for 

 one Carpenter in £200 to the Crown for dutys ( ^utlS" ) o^ 

 tobacco who, proving a bankrupt. Sir Peter procured an Extentf 



* There is no evidence that the waterhouse at the town quay was originally 

 supplied by Vermuyden from the rivulet of Kergilliack. At present the supply 

 is brought from Tubb's Well below the Wood Lane ;— the reservoir adjoins Grove 

 Hill. Probably Sir Peter Killigrew, when he was baffled by Rogers, diverted the 

 water-course from Tubb's Well to Arwenack House to supply the Shipping at the 

 Quay. — See Thomas' History of Falmouth, p. 70- 



Mill-house Row, which is beside the Friends' Meeting House, probably 

 indicates the situation of Vermuyden' s mills, mill-houses and pool. 



t A Trrit of Execution. 



