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Philip Rashleigh came of a leading merchant family in Fowey, which they represented almost without interruption from 1586 until 1698 and continuously from 1727 until 1802. Returned for Liskeard as a Tory in 1715, he was absent from the divisions on the septennial bill in 1716 and on the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts in 1719, but voted against the peerage bill. In 1715 a treasonable pamphlet addressed to him was seized in the post at Exeter on government orders,1E.W. Rashleigh, Hist. Fowey, 30. and in 1721 his name was sent to the Pretender as a Jacobite supporter.2Stuart mss 65/16. He did not stand in 1722, dying 12 Aug. 1736.