Map of Falmouth (1693).

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      ‘Falmouth – To Sir Peter Killigrew, Baronet presented by Captain Greenville Collins (1693)’, engraving, 47 x 58 cms. © Falmouth Art Gallery Collection FAMAG:20003.13

      Author’s grandfather. © Philip Marsden

      Liberty’s stern. © Philip Marsden

      Glasney College. © Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/The National Library of Wales

      John and Elizabeth Killigrew, brass commemorative plaque in St Budock church. Reproduced from E.H.W Dunkin, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall (Spottiswoode & Co., 1882)

      Falmouth Haven. From Lord Burghley’s copy of Christopher Saxton’s Maps of the several counties of England. © The British Library Board. Royal MS. 18. D.III

      Duke William and his Fleet Cross the Channel to Pevensey, from the Bayeux Tapestry (before 1082), wool embroidery on linen, by French School (11th century). © Musée de la Tapisserie, Bayeux, France/With special authorisation of the city of Bayeux/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library

      Ship illustration from Matthew Baker, Fragments of English Shipwrightry. Courtesy of the Pepys Library, Cambridge

      Killigrew family tree

      A map of the river Fal and its tributatries from a survey made in 1597, by Baptista Boazio. From H.M. Jeffrey, Early topography of Falmouth, JRIC vol. IX (1886). Courtesy of Cornwall Centre

      Map of Smithwick (1615). From H.M. Jeffrey, Early topography of Falmouth, JRIC vol. IX (1886). Courtesy of Cornwall Centre

      The Lizard Light-houses, Cornwall, by William Daniell. © Crown Copyright; UK Government Art Collection

      ‘Sovereign of the Seas’, by John Payne (1637). © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

      Thomas Killigrew, by William Sheppard (1650). © National Portrait Gallery, London

      ‘A View of Falmouth Harbour’, by Hendrick Danckerts (circa 1678). © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

      Detail from ‘Falmouth – To Sir Peter Killigrew, Baronet presented by Captain Greenville Collins (1693)’, engraving, 47 x 58cms. © Falmouth Art Gallery Collection. FAMAG:2003.13

      Peter Killigrew. Frontispiece from Susan E. Gay, Old Falmouth: The Story of the Town from the Days of the Killigrews to the Earliest Part of the 19th Century (Headly Brothers, 1903)

      The Killigrew Monument (The Pyramid Arwenack), by Unknown artist (19th century), oil on canvas, 49.5 x 63cms. © Falmouth Art Gallery Collection. FAMAG:1000.42

      ‘Fatte hogges, pretty oranges, strange crabs’. From Peter Mundy, The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608–1667, vol. III, part I (Hakluyt Society, London 1919)

      Avery the Pirate. CRO J/2277. Courtesy of the Cornwall Record Office

      John Avery. From Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Conway Maritime Press, 1998)

      Armed guard for the Falmouth to London mail. © Mary Evans Picture Library/Bruce Castle Museum

      Arwenacke House, Falmouth, Cornwall, by Unknown artist (1786). Engraver: Sparrow. Publisher: Hooper, S. Engraving, 15.3 x 20cms. © Falmouth Art Gallery Collection. FAMAG:1000.96

      Cover of Samuel Kelly’s ‘Life & Voyages’, Vol. III. CRO X92. Courtesy of the Cornwall Record Office

      Ship-worm (Teredo navalis). From Sir Charles Lyell, The Student’s Elements of Geology (Murray, 1871)

      Jewish Cemetery, Falmouth. © Philip Marsden

      Letter from George Croker Fox. By permission of Charles Fox

      Books from the old G. C. Fox & Co. offices. © Philip Marsden

      ‘Sir Edward Pellew: Lord Exmouth’ after Sir Thomas Lawrence (c. 1797). © Hulton Archive/Getty Images

      ‘View of Falmouth & Sir J Borlase Warren’s prizes entering the harbour’, engraved by Thomas Medland (Bunney & Co., 1800). Courtesy of Cornwall Centre

      The Indefatigable capturing La Virginie, by C. Sheppard (publisher) (1797). © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

      The wreck of the East Indiaman Dutton at Plymouth Sound, 26 January 1796, by Thomas Luny (1821). © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

      Extract from The Cornwall Gazette and Falmouth Packet, 7 March, 1801. Courtesy of the Courtney Libary (RIC), Truro

      Grave of Joseph Emidy. © Philip Marsden

      A View of Falmouth and places adjacent, by H. Michell (1806, published). Aquatint, 37 x 77cms. Lent by Cornwall Heritage Trust. © Falmouth Art Gallery Collection. FAMAG:L2000.4

      ‘Encounter with Robbers Near Kengawar’. From J. S. Buckingham, Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830)

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