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London, and raised such a storm through their ambassador that a 
judicial inquiry was instituted by the Earl of Bedford. The result 
was, that. Lady Mary had to go to London at considerable expense, 
and had to use all her influence to prevent herself being punished 
for her share in these piratical proceedings, and it need scarcely be 
added that the humbler performers received the punishment of 
death at Launceston. The family manuscript makes no reference 
whatever to this affair. This must not be regarded as an ordinary 
act of piracy ; for such proceedings were constant between the 
English and Spaniards at this period, being only six years before 
the Armada came. The only difference between this act and 
Drake's is, that this ship was then in an English port on a trading 
enterprise. The State Papers give an account some years later 
(1595) of the attempt of the captain of a Portuguese privateer to 
blow up Arwenack House. He landed at night with a quantity of 
combustibles, intending to fire the house, and to set fire to the 
shipping in Falmouth harbour. He avowed that the chief cause 
of his coming was to carry off Mr. Killigrew's wife and children. 
The first Sir John Killigrew died in 1584, and in Budock Church 
is a brass to his memory, and that of Dame Mary, his wife. In 
addition to the two sons referred to, who went to Elizabeth's Court, 
he had two daughters, Mary and Katherine, and was succeeded by 
his eldest son John in the Cornish estates and governorship of 
Pendennis Castle. 
This son, John Killigrew, married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas 
Monk, Esq., of Poderidge, Devon, and by her had a family of 
nine sons and five daughters. Eleven of this family survived to 
adult age. His wife was a great aunt of General Monk, Duke of 
Albemarle. He is described in the family manuscript as a gamester, 
and negligent in his affairs, a fine gentleman, and so profuse in his 
style of living that, although he inherited £6000 a year, he left 
only a shattered estate to his eldest son, the second Sir John. He 
was governor of Pendennis at the time of the threatened Spanish 
invasion, and in 1591 he urgently petitioned the Queen's Council 
to further strengthen the castle, and offered to perform a portion 
of the work with his own tenantry. He died in 1594, and was 
succeeded by his son John (the fourth in succession of that 
Christian name), who was knighted by James I. at Whitehall in 
November, 1617. He was, according to the family manuscript, a 
" sober and good man," who had the misfortune to marry a lady 
