SOME EXTINCT CORNISH FAMILIES. 
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then that Martin Lister, the writer of the MS. so often referred 
to, and who had been an intimate friend of George Killigrew's, 
was married to Sir Peter's second daughter Ann. Lister, who subse- 
quently took the name of Killigrew, was of a good Staffordshire 
family settled at Liston, and he describes himself in the third 
person as having been a young gentleman and a soldier of fortune. 
This marriage proved a very happy one, and a comfort to all the 
members of the family. He had the mortification to survive his 
wife and her sister, besides their parents. 
Soon after this last marriage Sir Peter and all the members of 
the family removed to London, being chiefly induced to do this 
because of the constant troubles he had with the Corporation of 
Falmouth, and the endless litigation which resulted. By means of 
the Corporation he had a lawsuit with Sir Nicholas Slanning 
about a field worth .£100, and which Sir Peter won in the end; 
but it cost him £1000, and Slanning £3000. He built the town 
quay at Falmouth ; and in order to bring in fresh water — there 
being no good water in the town — went to the expense of £700 
in making a conduit with a mill -house. In doing this he had 
managed to divert the course for thirty yards on the land of Sir 
Yyel Vyvyan, who at the wish of the Corporation of Falmouth 
demanded a heavy rental and fine from Sir Peter, when he, 
resenting such conduct in a neighbouring landowner, abandoned 
the whole thing. 
The MS. quotes a decision of Chief Justice Holt in the matter 
of signing the bye-laws of the town of Falmouth, in which he 
remarked "that the king's power did not extend to the granting 
by charter to the infringing any man's right, much less could any 
corporation under pretence of bye-laws do it ; and as to his and 
the rest of the judges signing such laws, gives them no real weight 
to the infringement of any man's right." 
One of the town's bye-laws enacted that all new-comers into the 
town should pay a fine to the mayor for license to open shop 
windows. This they put in practice for some years, until Martin 
Killigrew having heard of it, and that it had been enforced in 
the case of a shoemaker who was very poor, he offered to obtain 
the repayment of the money by law; but the poor man, after 
consulting his friends, begged Killigrew not to move in the matter, 
as he was assured that he and his family would not be suffered to 
live in the town if they offended the Corporation. 
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