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against him, wMch. being controverted by the said Rogers 

 underhand, in the said Carpenter's name, and Sir Peter pleading 

 execution being taken by the sherrifS of Carpenter's (cifpeutCT's ) 

 goods, the sherriff's warrant was called for ; when, upon 

 examination, the custody of the warrant ( ^|)~ant ) was fixed upon 

 one Henderson, a miserable bailiff's follower, who answered, 

 that he had lit his pipe with it, as of no signification. And 

 upon the merit of that piece of service, soon after Mr. Rogers 

 (*^o^ou aftiD made him town sergeant (s^feant) and mace bearer, 

 to nose Sir Peter and his interest, as he did to the day of the said 

 Henderson's death. And so far, Mr. Rogers (jjogll^) was right 

 in his attachment to Sir Peter's ruin, that at the end of many 

 years' trouble and vexation. Sir Peter found himself about 

 £3,000 the worse for this contest; soon after which the said 

 Rogers, in or about the year 1692, dying, proved to the world, 

 that he had got nothing by his so many years nosing and trying 

 by aU means coming in his way to injure Sir Peter ; for that 

 from making the most opulent figure of any merchant in the 

 West of England, he died next to a beggar, his son-in-law, 

 Mr. Hearle, with the rest of his executors, renouncing his will, 

 his wife turned out of her great house, and died in a poor 

 condition. 



Mr. Quarme's story properly comes in here, as having a 

 large share in this history of the Corporation ; a man of a quick 

 and sprightly genius, was remarkably grateful in all his 

 behaviour to Sir Peter for his having given him the living, and 

 to the death of the said Mr. Rogers, (*^|o"il?s^'^0 stuck fast and 

 close to Sir Peter's interest against the said Mr. Rogers and 

 his Corporation. But soon after my marriage in 1690, Sir Peter, 

 removing his residence to London, left the management of his 

 estate to the said Mr. Quarme, who continued vigilant and 

 faithful to him therein, until the death of the said Mr. Rogers, 

 who was soon succeeded in the great house by Mr. Corker, then 

 late apprentice to the said Rogers, whose story may not be 

 improper to take, from his beginning, he making an uncommon 

 figure in life.* This Corker's mother was sister to John Newman, 



* Robert Corker, who died in 1731, was descended from an ancient family, 

 which went into Ireland from Huntwick in Yorkshire, and originally held lands 

 in Lincolnshire. 



