It is, however, with the elder son of this generation that we have chiefly to deal, for through him the succession was kept up. Sir Peter, the second baronet (inheriting that title from his uncle, the foregoing Sir William, the first), was born in 1634, and was educated, notwithstanding his father's reduced estate, first at Oxford, and afterwards in France. Whilst he was at Oxford, the horrible execution of Anne Green, for murdering her infant illegitimate child, took place. After hanging for half an hour, she recovered her life in consequence of judicious medical treatment; and full particulars of the event are given in a rare little volume published at Oxford in 1651, and entitled 'News from the Dead.' To this work many of the members of the university contributed short sets of verses, some in Latin, some in English. The following lines were those supplied by the Cornish baronet: 'Death, spare your threats, we scorne now to obey; If Women conquer thee, surely Men may. How came this Champion on I cannot tell, But I nere heard of one _come off_ so well. 'PET. KILLIGREW, Eq. Aur. fil. Coll. Reg.' And here is a specimen of his powers as a writer of Latin verse, on a very different subject: [PRO REGE SOTERIA.] 'Funera funeribus commiscens, bustaq; bustis Ira avidæ, nato Principe, pestis abit. Filius an regis potuit dum vagijt infans A tôta rabidam gente fugare luem? Nec valet, Antidotas sibi Rex, depellere varos Cujus Apollinea est tarn benè nota manus? Tantane _Carolidæ_ potuêre crepundia? plebem De tumulo redimet qui modò natus erat? Et res usque; nova est? morbum miramur abortum, Depulsum sceptro, Carole magne, tuo?' In 1662, Sir Peter, who had been made Governor of Pendennis on the Restoration, married the handsome, virtuous, and accomplished Frances Twysden, daughter of Sir Roger, the well-known judge of that name;[62] and the union appears to have been a happy one in every respect, save as to the offspring. Peter, the eldest, died young; George, the second son, was killed in a tavern brawl at Penryn (at the house of a Mr. Chalons, says Tonkin), by 'a stab in the back' from a barrister named Walter Vincent. Another account states that the skull, which was found in 1861, showed that the hole made by the rapier was clearly visible in the forehead. Frances, the elder daughter, married a Cornish gentleman named Richard Erissey,[63] who 'cast her off' three years after their marriage. Ann, the youngest, who died without issue, married Martin Lister, a Staffordshire gentleman and soldier of fortune, who assumed the name of Killigrew, and managed the estates for many years. Clearly the main stem of the great race of Killigrew was rapidly decaying!