Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as “Peter the Post,” from the alacrity with which he despatched “like wild fire” all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him in the King’s cause. His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660.
Cornwall was strongly Royalist.
Falmouth Parish Church is dedicated to King Charles the Martyr. There’s some background to Killigrew’s involvement here: http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Falmouth.htm