to be ready by the 10th August. The remainder
was not demanded until July, 1612.(121)

(M47)

Hitherto the agreement between the lords of the council and the citizens
of London had been carried out by one side only. The City had found the
money wherewith to carry out the work of the plantation, but as yet not an
acre of land had been assigned. It is not surprising, therefore, that when
the Grocers' Company were called upon to contribute their _quota_ to the
L5,000 demanded in July, 1612, they desired the lord mayor not to press
the matter until the assurance of the lands and other hereditaments for
which money had been formerly disbursed should have been obtained from his
majesty.(122) At length, on the 29th March, 1613, the Irish Society
received its charter of incorporation.

(M48)

Notwithstanding the great difficulty experienced in getting in the last
L5,000--as much as L3,667 10_s._ being still outstanding in October,
1612(123)--the Common Council found itself under the unpleasant necessity
of asking the companies for another L10,000 within a few weeks of the
incorporation of the Irish Society. Not only had the whole of the L30,000
formerly subscribed been expended, but the Irish Society had borrowed
L3,000 from the Chamber of London.(124) The money was to be raised by the
end of May.

(M49)

James had already begun to show impatience--even before the granting of the
charter of incorporation to the Irish Society--at the little progress made
in the work of the plantation. At the close of the last year (21 Dec.,
1612) he had himself written to Sir Arthur Chichester directing him to
send home an account of what the Londoners had done; for, notwithstanding
their pretence of great expenditure, there was, so he was informed, little
outward show for it.(125) Fault was found with them, not only for failing
to build houses according to the articles of agreement, but for their
humane treatment of the "mere Irish," instead of driving them forth to
perish in the narrow districts set apart for them.(126)

(M50)

On Midsummer-day (1613) Sir Henry Montague, the Recorder, and Sir William
Cockaine, the governor of the Irish Society, signified to the Common
Council that it was the king's wish that the walls and fortifications of
Derry should be at once taken in hand. The court agreed to lose no time in
carrying out the king's wishes, and further resolved to despatch "some
great and worthy magistrate," as well as "some com