326 TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
When Sir Peter came into possession of Arwenack in 1648 he 
was able to bring to it about £12,000 of his personal estate. He 
got the Custom-house removed from Penryn to Smethick; and 
finally, when the king " enjoyed his own again," and Sir Peter 
was rewarded with a baronetcy, he used his interest to get a 
charter for the town, which in 1660 was duly incorporated as the 
Borough of Falmouth, with a representation in Parliament He 
chiefly contributed to building the church, which is called after 
Charles " the Martyr," and he represented the new borough in 
Parliament. 
Sir Peter died in 1667 on the road to Exeter, leaving his son, 
the second Sir Peter, £7000 in money besides the estates. The 
latter had married, in 1662, Frances, daughter of Sir Eoger 
Twysden, of East Peckham, in Kent, " one of the finest women of 
her time, mistress of good sense, and endowed with virtue and 
beauty." One of the most scathing letters of reproach ever written 
was addressed by this lady to Mr. Quarme, the incumbent of 
Falmouth, accusing him of ingratitude to his patron, Sir Peter, 
after the latter's decease. This letter is preserved among the 
archives at Arwenack manor-office. 
This second Sir Peter, and the last of the Killigrews to whom 
I shall have to refer, had by Lady Frances, one son, George, and 
two daughters, Anne and Frances. He had been living a good 
deal at Court, but afterwards went back to Falmouth in 1670. 
In 1687 his son, who had been married to Ann, daughter of Sir 
John St. Aubyn (in 1684, she being then only seventeen), was 
killed in a duel at Penryn by Walter Vincent, a barrister. The 
MS. says that he was basely murdered by a stab in the back in a 
tavern at Penryn. This is incorrect, because Vincent was tried 
for the offence at Launceston and acquitted, but died not long 
after, according to Hals, of atrophy, caused by the sad event 
preying upon his mind. The widow of George Killigrew subse- 
quently married a Mr. Goslyn, of Westminster, master of the 
signet office. 
The loss of his only son is stated to have broken Sir Peter's 
heart, inasmuch as he never took a delight in anything again, but 
in his lady and two daughters. Frances, his elder daughter, 
having been married to Eichard Erisey, Esq., of Erisey — a family 
also now extinct — had to return home with her young daughter 
Mary, owing to domestic differences with her husband. It was 
