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(Jane, daughter of Sir George Fermor) with whom very serious 
domestic troubles subsequently arose. He prosecuted a divorce 
against her in the Archbishop's court, which lasted so many years, 
and was so very expensive, that it quite ruined his estate to the 
extent of his being put to very great shifts to get home from 
London after the frequent recesses of the process. But he at last 
obtained the divorce, the manuscript says, " in all its formal 
extent;" but he had to allow his wife £20 per annum, and at 
his death, in 1632, she came into the whole of the remains of 
the Arwenack estate as her jointure, which makes it appear that 
she was never actually divorced. The town of Penryn sustained 
her by monetary aid during the litigation, and she presented a 
silver cup to the borough, with this inscription : " From Maior to 
Maior to the town of Permarin, when they received me that was 
in great misery, Jane Killigrew, 1633." She afterwards married 
Captain Francis Bluett, and lived in possession of the Killigrew 
estate till her death, (1648), she having then survived her first 
husband sixteen years. About this Lady Jane Killigrew, Hals 
has originated a detailed story, and Hitchens and Drew have 
followed him unquestioningly. It represents her as having been 
engaged in a more notorious act of piracy than that recorded of 
Lady Mary, in which two casks of doubloons were stolen from a 
Dutch ship, which she herself boarded ; and it was stated that 
she gave the cup to the town of Penryn for help out of this diffi- 
culty, and that the date on the cup was 1613. It was this lady's 
husband's grandmother who was concerned in the piratical affair 
before mentioned. This story shows the thorough inaccuracy of 
Hals as a county biographer ; in fact, Lysons says of him that the 
publication of his work was suspended for want of purchasers, 
occasioned by the scurrilous anecdotes which it contained. Mr. 
H. M. Whitley points out that Hals was a scandalmonger, and 
evidently had a grudge against this and almost every other Cornish 
family. 
Another act of injustice has been done in a recent work, but I 
am sure quite unwittingly, to the memory of a brave soldier and 
estimable man. Captain Oliver, in his admirable little History of 
PendenntSy in our library, surmises that it was with Sir Nicholas 
Parker, governor of Pendennis, that the name of Lady Jane had 
been compromisingly coupled. Sir Nicholas Parker died in 1603. 
A very high character of him stands recorded on his brass in 
