s, and hat-band makers,
locksmiths and farriers, tanners and fellmongers, iron makers,
glass-makers, pewterers, coast fishermen, turners, basket-makers,
tallow-chandlers, dyers, and curriers.

The Christ's Hospital children arrived safe, and became the precious
seed of the 'prentice boys.

In 1629 the following return was made of the total disbursements by
the Londoners in Derry from January 2, 1609, to this year:--

L
For 77-1/2 houses at 140 l. a house 10,850
For 33 houses at 80 l. a house 2,680
For the Lord Bishop's house 500
For the walls and fortifications 8,357
For digging the ditch and filling earth for the rampire 1,500
For levelling earth to lay the rampire 500
For building a faggot quay at the water-gate 100
For two quays at the lime kilns 10
For the building of the town house 500
For the quays at the ferry 60
For carriage and mounting the ordnance 40
For arms 558
For a guardhouse 50
For the platforms for bulwarks 300
For some work done at the old church 40
For some work done at the town pike 6
For sinking 22 cellars, and sundry of the houses not
done at first, at 20 s. cellar, one with another 440
For the building of lime kilns 120
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26,611
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Sum total, as given in the Commissioners' account 27,197

The exclusive and protective system utterly failed to accomplish its
purpose in keeping out the Irish.

Sir Thomas Phillips made a muster-roll in 1622, in which he gives
110 as the number of settlers in the city of Derry capable of bearing
arms. There are but two Irish names in the list--Ermine M'Swine, and
James Doherty. The first, from his Christian name, seemed to have
been of mixed blood, the son of a judge, which would account for
his orthodoxy. But his presence might have reminded the citizens
unplea