Charles I - volume 539: August 1646

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

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'Charles I - volume 539: August 1646', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 698. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/p698 [accessed 14 April 2024]

August 1646

Aug. 7. 395. Deposition of Ann Kanne, widow, of Clandermond [Clandermott], near Londonderry. When the rebellion broke out, she had to fly to Londonderry for the safeguard of herself and children. She never had the value of a pennyworth from Thornton [mayor of Londonderry], though she often sought relief from him; but he said that her husband was an Irishman, therefore he would give her none. He forced her husband to break open her trunk, and took 5l. 15s. from it, which she hath repeatedly demanded, but his answer is that if it were ten times more he would keep it all, and that he could have hanged her husband if he had pleased. She has heard that some of the provisions sent were so spoiled that they were given to the hogs, or thrown into the water. She has heard the poor who came to his door for relief say that he would rather give the food to the hogs than to relieve them, and she had seen his wife beat them away from the door with a staff. The charity sent of corn and such like was given in pay to the soldiers to her knowledge, she herself living in a captain's house. She had seen divers, old and young, perish in the street for want of relief, and knows that much provision of victuals and clothes came to Derry, but knows not how Thornton disposed of them, only she has heard some poor say that he told them the soldiers had more need than they, and has also heard that the best of the clothes were given to his own friends. [1¼ pp.]
Aug. 15. 396 (1—3). Three sheets containing the names of officers in Ireland, the payments to them by Arthur Creed, deputy of Nicholas Loftus, of moneys due respectively on 7th, 8th, and 15th August, and the signatures of the officers in acknowledgment of receipt of the same.
Overleaf.—Warrants signed by the Earl of. Inchiquin to Creed, ordering the said payments.
Aug. 397. "The names of some of the enemy's party who defended Pendennis Castle in Cornwall against the Parliament, together with the number of the garrison soldiers that marched forth at the rendition of the said castle, August 1646." [¾ p. See list already calendared under date August 1646.]
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