THE FALMOUTH MAIfTJSORIPT. 21 



Draper by name, Town Clerk of tlie Corporation, who always 

 pretended that by virtue of his office he wood keep the Corpora- 

 tion in order and subservient to Sir Peter's Interest, but when 

 Sir Peter came to be at leisure to look into ye premises (? promises), 

 he found he had not only in the general betray'd Sir Peter 

 therein to ye said Rogers, but in particular had drawn in Sir 

 Peter to grant a 2 1 years' lease of the Market to the Corporation 

 at £20 Pent, which Terminated in 91. 



"That had Sir Peter been a man of lenity and ye least 

 Generosity, he must have won upon ye Towns people, and have 

 gained their dutifull affection." 



That who ever knew Sir Peter Killigrew must own his 

 goodness and generosity, in many respects to a fault ; and as a 

 further Instance of his undeserved goodness to ye Corporation, 

 by the villanous inducement of Mr. Quarme, his then Steward, in 

 1693 he granted them a 2nd 21 years Lease at the like rent of 

 £20, Terminating in 1714, ye then Warrs continuing most part of 

 the said Lease, when the market yielded these great Lords about 

 £100 a year ; and what return of any kind did they ever make to 

 Sir Peter or his family? Te foregoing is a Demonstration ; and yet 

 their aversion and prejudice and malice is not to any particulae 

 person, but is, and ever will be, to the possessor of the Estate ; the 

 attack, as is plain from their own pleadings to your Face, as if 



their being great men in spirit and possessed of a Charter, 



but without revenue, is their greevance, ye Sole and only case of 

 any Corporation in the Kingdom, as allowing it to be the fact, ye 

 others, their acqisitions, if looked into, will be found to arise 

 from fraud and oppression of unwary people. For Instance 

 ye next found, with in the memory of man had little or no 

 Pevenue, till by villanous means they got into and ousted 

 poor Lukey of his Estate ; ye particulars whereof by Title Deeds 

 I have had before me as clear as the Sun, but his reduced 

 poverty was such as made it impracti(ca)ble my Eeleiveing him. 



'' That to the year 1700, which I succeeded Mr. Quarme in ye 

 Stewardship of the Estate, ye Corporation had been left to enjoy 

 their Bights and privileges in a tolerable degree. But from 

 that time, till my power Terminated, I took all occasions of being 

 intolerable troublesome and arbritary under the Q-eneral Charac- 

 ter of the worst of men." 



