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of £100, as it appear(s) upon record that I owed her £40 and she 

 me £7, — I say with virulency, for that ye contest cost the widow 

 upwards of £100 and me as much. 



Is it not clear to good sense, that had I made any colisive 

 (? collusive) hargain with her Husband for ye living, down to 

 the smallest gratification or promise of any kind, it must have 

 been charged upon me in her said Bill, when she could risk 

 nothing by the discovery of ye Simony, but must had the 

 pleasure of defaming me upon record thereby ? ye man I found 

 a poor curate at Uanbury in Essex, his Father a poor Carpenter 

 at Whetham in ye said County, and sent ye Poor Man at his 

 going into ye living £70 pounds. 



As to my making any Simoni(a)call bargain with that good 

 man Mr. Walmsley, the present Incumbent, — his circumstances at 

 his coming into it skreene me from all ye least probable suspicion 

 in his case ; all which I trouble you with to show you ye 

 virulent temper of these people, of which you must expect 

 sooner or later to have a taste, if you pretend to have so 

 close an eye to your Interest in the Estate as I have done. In 

 saying ' the people,' I would not have it taken in a general sense ; 

 for that I have good reason to believe, excepting 3 or 4 of ye 

 governing Lords, ye rest of the people would rejoice, and find 

 their account in seeing their Lordships brought to reason. 



In the year 1725 I was down with them at Falmouth, and 

 apprehending from my growing years it might be the last time, 

 as it proved, I attempted to put an end to all differences with the 

 Corporation, and had the appearance of succeeding therein, but 

 as it proved, so in nothing but exchanging their good words for 

 my solid bounty to them.* I gave them their Town House in Fee, f 

 for which I had been oif er'd £300 pounds by the late John Attwell 

 for a lease only of Three lives, and withall gave them their new 

 Maces, which cost me £100, but oversett such my bounty in refusing 

 them a grant of the Market, which I declined in the most reason- 

 able Termes I could, reminding them of the poor returns they 



* Two silver alms-dishes both bear the same inscription, and are stamped 

 with the Killigi'ew Arms : " the gift of Martin Killigrew, Esq , to the church of 

 Falmouth 1719," (1) 41° 5; (2) 40°" 19. A large silver paten was probably 

 another gift of his : " Deo et ecclesite de Falmouth Anno Domini 1715 D.D.D." 



t The old Town Hall in High Street has lately been sold to the Oddfellows, 

 for their Hall, 



