296 THE FIRING OP AB,-WENACK BY THE SPANIARDS. 



that the house & all in it shoulde not stande longe unfired & 

 so staied a while till theire fier worke had gotten strengthe & 

 heringe a grett clappe from the house were very joyfull, but 

 when they harde the larum of a bell ringinge oute they plied 

 theire owares & gott to sea aborde theire shippe, only with 

 this examinant & a littell boye a taylers sonne of Penryn. 



The sayde examinant sayethe y* he sawe xij barrells of the 

 like fire workes, which he saythe they ment to hange aboard 

 shippes ridinge in the harborough as also to have fired one other 

 poore house theire adjoyinge & so to have carried the man 

 & woman of the same house a waye with them, when the saide 

 captaine reported that he knewe well & with all he ment to 

 carrie with him Mr. Kyllygrewes wife & children the chief 

 cause of his cominge if time had suffered them & the daye not 

 so sodainly coming on. At our arrival at St. Anderas he willed 

 me to saye y* the Taylers boye was a base sonne of Mr. 

 Kyllygrewe & therefore he put him into good apparell & 

 carried him to the courte as a proofe of his service, where he 

 was placed a page to the kynges base sonne & much made of 

 & affirmed to y® Kynge that he had burnte Mr. Kyllygrewes 

 house to the grounde beinge the finest house of one of the 

 greatest cavillers in all the weste partes for the which the Kynge 

 gave him in rewarde a chaine of goolde 200 Ducatts and xv^ 

 yerely pension during his life, this he reported to the sayde 

 examinant at his cominge backe from courte. 



Nowe this examinant affirmethe that the sayde portyngal 

 captaine hathe at St. Andreas 500 men in paie with foure or five 

 shippes in redines to come for the baye of falmouth which they 

 make a counte to sacke & borne PenrjTi with other places they 

 were comynge at Christmas-tyde laste and stayed only for theire 

 paie. 



Further this examinant sayeth that one captaine Burleye 

 an Inglyshman a' guide & captaine to the Spaniarde at the 

 burninge of Penzanse, came to the sayde towne of St. Anderas 

 where this examinant was & sent for hym where the sayed 

 Burleye tolde hym that he would have this next sommer St. 

 Mawes Castell at his commandment & would lande at Markiewe 

 with a greater force then fower gallies & from thence will 

 commande as far as foye ether by sea or lande. 



