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swivel, as in the case of Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq., of " Antiquary " 
fame. 
Carew states that Queen Elizabeth derived a revenue of XI 000 
a year from Godolphin's tin works. Sir Francis represented 
Cornwall in Parliament, although it is said that he very much 
preferred country life at home to attendance at Court. When the 
Armada was preparing to threaten our shores he was appointed 
colonel of a regiment armed with 470 pikes, 490 muskets, and 
240 calivers. Some years after the Armada period the Spaniards 
attacked and burned Newlyn, Mousehole, and Penzance; but Sir 
Francis showed such a bold front in resisting them that they 
quickly took to their ships again. He was twice married, his 
second wife being Margaret Killigrew ; while an ancestor in the 
reign of Henry VII. had married Elizabeth, daughter of John 
Killigrew. He was buried at Ereage in 1608. His son, Sir 
William, died five years later, after greatly distinguishing himself 
in Ireland during the partial invasion of that island by the 
Spaniards, under Don Juan d'Aquila, in the year 1600. He served 
in the Parliaments of Elizabeth and James I., and married Dorothy, 
daughter of Thomas Sidney, Esq., of Wrighton, Norfolk, and by 
her had one daughter, Penelope, and three sons, Francis, Sidney, 
and William. This son William commanded a regiment for King 
Charles, and distinguished himself in the West of England 
engagements. Sidney, the second son, lost his life at Chagford 
while serving on the king's side, in a skirmish which took place 
there. Clarendon says " he was a young gentleman of incomparable 
parts ; his advice was of great authority with all the commanders, 
being always one of the council of war. He, engaging himself 
in the action at Chagford, received a mortal shot by a musket, of 
which he died in an instant, leaving the misfortune of his death 
on a place which could never otherwise have had a mention in 
the world." This seems rather hard on the little town. He was 
buried in the chancel of Okehampton Church. 
Thomas Hobbes said of this Sidney Godolphin, in his Leviathan: 
" I have known clearness of judgment and largeness of fancy, 
strength of reason and graceful elocution, a courage for the war, 
and fear for the law, and all eminently in one man, and that was 
my most honoured friend, Mr. Sidney Godolphin, who, hating no 
man nor hated of any, was unfortunately slain in the beginning 
of the Civil War." 
