Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
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Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)
Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
Cornwall (England : County) -- Biography
In the Savoy itself Henry Killigrew lived, paying £1 a year for his
lodgings. No pleasant neighbourhood was that 'Sanctuary'[89] which
Macaulay thus describes:
'The Savoy was another place of the same kind as Whitefriars; smaller
indeed, and less renowned, but inhabited by a not less lawless
population. An unfortunate tailor, who ventured to go thither for the
purpose of demanding payment for a debt, was set upon by the whole
mob of cheats, ruffians, and courtezans. He offered to give a full
discharge to his debtor, and a treat to the rabble, but in vain.
He had violated their "franchises," and this crime was not to be
pardoned. He was knocked down, stripped, tarred, and feathered. A rope
was tied round his waist. He was dragged naked up and down the street
amidst yells of "A bailiff! a bailiff!" Finally he was compelled to
kneel down, and curse his father and mother--and then "to limp home
without a rag upon him."'
The Master of the Savoy married twice, it is said; but I have failed
to trace the maiden name of either of his wives. It would have been
interesting to know who the first was, especially; for she was the
mother of the fairest and brightest of all the Killigrews--Mistress
Anne. The second wife continued to live in the Savoy after her
husband's death, which took place the 14th March, 1699.
He had two sons and two daughters. The sons, both of whom were
sailors, were Henry and James; and the daughters, Elizabeth and the
incomparable ANNE. Clutterbuck, in his 'History of Hertfordshire,'
says that Elizabeth married Dr. J. Lambe, Dean of Ely, who succeeded
to the Rectory of Wheathampstead; and that they had five sons and five
daughters. Her epitaph records that she was 'a most intirely beloved
wife,' and that 'to menc̄on some of her virtues only (though very
great ones) would lessen her character, who was a most eminent example
of all those virtues whatsoever that adorn her sex.'
Henry, the elder son, appears to have been, on the whole, a successful
man in his profession; he entered the navy in 1666, and for the next
twenty years sailed in almost as many different ships; he was made
Vice-Admiral of the Blue in 1689, and finally was created a Lord of
the Admiralty under King William III. He died at his seat at St.
Albans (for which place he had been elected M.P.) on the 9th November,
1712, eighteen years after his retirement from the Admiralty. Many MS.
letters by him are in the Bodleian Library, and at All Souls' College,
Oxford. In the British Museum is preserved a broadside entitled--
'GOOD NEWS FROM THE ENGLISH FLEET:
being an Account of a great and bloody Engagement which happened
yesterday between Their Majesties' Fleet commanded by Admiral
Killigrew, and the French Fleet near the Beachy--with a particular
account of the Taking Six of their Ships, and Sinking Three.'
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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