However, despite this testimony, and more like it, Killegrew’s light was put out—the tax for its support was a burden, and so it must go. The accounts of the Plymouth corporation record the expenditure of money For ‘pulling down’ the Lizard lighthouse, which the shipowners considered ‘burthensome to all ye countrie.’ Ten years later, Sir William Killegrew, of Pendennis Castle, a kinsman of Sir John, applied to the king for a renewal of the patent in his favour. ‘I am so bold,’ he writes, ‘as to desire the king to grant the patent to me.... ’Tis a thing all seamen desire,’ and they wondered by what unjust complaints so great a benefit was lost. ‘Every year many ships are [now] wrecked for want of it, and I am,’ wrote Sir William, ‘at the entreaty of all men, desired to set it up again.’ But no answer was returned to that petition, and when, some thirty years later, Sir John Coryton proposed a lighthouse at the Lizard, the Trinity House, in condemning the suggestion, wrote triumphantly that a former lighthouse there had been found _altogether useless_ and very quickly ‘discontinued.’ So it was that no lighthouse was established at the Lizard till after the middle of the last century, when that we now see was erected. It was proposed in 1748 by a certain Captain Farrish, who suggested building a lighthouse there which should show four lights. These proposals were made to the Trinity House, not to the crown, and that body—after arranging that the speculator should, when the lighthouse was built, hold it of them for a term of sixty-one years at a rent of £80 a year—offered no opposition to the scheme. The patent was applied for in the corporation’s name, and granted. What became of Captain Farrish, we do not know; but he figures no more, after this, in the negotiations with the Trinity House—a Mr. Thomas Fonnereau taking his place. He built the lighthouse and took the profits for the sixty-one years. As agreed, the petition to the crown for the patent was made by the Trinity House, and it is strange to note how, by the irony of fate, that corporation is forced to make therein the most of every point on which Sir John Killegrew had relied, and which it had so uncompromisingly condemned!