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against Sir Peter, as he did strenuously to the day of his death, 

 not only to the bad example of others, (^othm-s°) ^'^^ ^o give me 

 many impediments in the improving (imprOTlment) ^^^ management 

 of the estate. And in like manner the said Corker insinuated 

 himself so into Mr. Quarme, (^i^^q") who though steward to the 

 estate and living in Arwenaek House in the year 1697, 1 had but 

 too much reason to suspect his sacrafising (saCTm^ng) Sir Peter's 

 estate to the said Corker's measures; and in some time after 

 detected him therein to a flagrant degree, (^oTdegi°^e"*) ^^^ to Sir 

 Peter's damage of some thousands of pounds, and which, in a 

 particular manner, appears by the survey book, his leasing at 

 shamfully low ffines from 1690 to 1700, so long was he steward. 



Nor would Mr. Corker for more than 30 years that he was 

 at the head of this Corporation, suffer any man to come into it 

 who was not his own depending creature ; and in his latter days 

 set up a rule that none should be admitted into the body who 

 were tenants to the estate, and upon that foot was brought in 

 Messrs. Webber, Steel, Price, and Capt. Upton. The last-named 

 (^ul7iSf^oiS^of '') was turned out of the Corporation, on his taking 

 Arwenaek House ; and some years after, we disagreeing about 

 Rent, he quitted it in a heat, upon the merit whereof he was 

 made Mayor, as a man to be depended on against me. 



The case of Mr. Tilliard was a flagrant instance of their 

 virulent prejudice to me. The story, however tedious to you to 

 read, must still be more so to me to write it. The thing is thus : 

 from the time Mr. Quarme was dismissed from his stewardship, 

 and I in his place, by his joyning with and egging on Mr. 

 Corker and his dependants in the Corporation, he gave me much 

 trouble and vexation in the due execution of the trust reposed 

 in me ; particularly in his insisting on his right to sixteenpence 

 in the pound upon houses ( hou"i^^s") by rate made by the Mayor and 

 Alderman, not within their limitts or jurisdiction,* as had been 

 the practice (unknown to Sir Peter) whilst he was steward ; 

 which, when he found I had exploded and put a stop to, in the 

 pulpit, to my face, I heard him say that men ought to be careful! 

 how they pushed another too farr, for that it was in the power 

 of every single man of spirit to put him to death, without 



* Situated in the paris/i, and not in the town of Falmouth. Thomas, p. 73, 

 quotes a memorandum from the Church Eegister in confirmation, il700). 



