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lord_n	city_n	john_n	sir_n	16,258	5	6.6544	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95312	The true state & condition of the seven foot-companies in the city of London-Derry, under the command of the severall captains following viz Robert Thornton, Simon Pitt, Henry Fynch, Henry Osborn, John Kilner, Robert Lawson, & William Patsall, (who now commandeth that company which was raised by Hewet Finch, deceased, and for some time commanded by Captain Henry Vaughan) is as followith, viz.		1644 (1644)	Wing T3104; Thomason 669.f.10[1]; ESTC R210272	1,622	1

The true State Condition of the seven foot-Companies in the City of London-Derry under the command of the severall Captains following viz Robert Thornton Simon Pitt Henry Fynch Henry Osborn John Kilner Robert Lawson William Patsall who now commandeth that Company which was raised by Hewet Finch deceased and for some time commanded by Captain Henry Vaughan is as followeth viz. FIRST THE said severall Captaines by authority derived from the right Honourable the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland about the twenty seventh of October 1641. did raise feede Cloath Arme and at their owne proper cost and charges maintaine their said Companies each Company consisting of one hundred men besides Officers and by the carefull industry of the said Commanders were made able ready and expert Souldiers as by Certificate dated the first of September 1642. Signed by Colonell Sir William Stewart Knight and Barronet Collonel Sir Robert Stewart Knight Sir William Sempill Knight and divers other persons of quality ready to be produced appeareth more at large Secondly That the said Captains their said Companies from the time of their said raising have constantly faithfully and successefully served not onely in guarding repairing and preserving the said City but have also often marched out into the field and given Battaile to the Rebels and beene Actors in the greatest services that have beene performed in the Counties of Tyrone Donnegall and London-derry the said Captaines alwayes furnished their said Companies with all provisions at their owne costs and charges as by the said Certificate likewise appeareth Thirdly That the said Captaines and their said Comapnies have beene a very prevalent meanes for the preservation of the said City of London-Derry and the Country adjacent and that without the assistance of the said Captaines and their said Companies and the supplies and support which some of the said Captaines upon credit out of their affection to the Publicke service did advance in ready money victuals and other provisions wherewith other Regiments were furnished severall other Regiments could not have so well subsisted as by the said Certificate may also appeare Fourthly That the said Lords Justices and Councell by their Letters dated the sixth of September 1642. directed to the then Mayor of London-derry and to Sir John Vaughan Knight taking notice how helpefull the Forces in that City had beene to the other Regiments in those parts and to the service did render them thankes for it and require the continuance thereof from time to time by their said letters also signifying That their Lordships formerly had and were then againe writing into England as well for their pay as for provisions of Victuals Clothes and other Necessaries for them as by a copy of the said Letters may appeare Fifthly That by Order of the honourable House of Commons dated the seventeenth of May 1643. the said Companies were to have entertainment according to the pay of the Army there to begin from the date of the Muster-booke signed by Commissary Roberts by order of the Lord Lievtenant of Ireland which was taken the nineteenth of August 1642. as by a Copy of the said Order appeareth Sixthly That upon the Petition of Robert Harrington Esquire Agent for the City of London-derry presented unto the Committee of Adventurers of the honourable House of Commons and Adventurers chosen in the City of London for the Irish affaires An Order was made the eighth of September 1643. by which for the Reasons therein mentioned It was ordered that as the said Committee should be inabled they would take care to provide for the said severall Companies in the next Ship that should goe to London-derry in such manner and measure as other the Companies there should be provided for as by the said Order appeareth It is now hereupon humbly offered to consideration That although divers provisions have beene sent to London-derry and to Knock fergus since the said Companies were raised and since all the said services by them performed as aforesaid and lately a Ship with provisions of victuals which came out of Holland sent unto Knock fergus yet have not any of the said Captains nor any of their said Companies at any time since their being raised as aforesaid received any manner of provision either in Money Victuall Clothes Armes Ammunition or ought else whatsoever to their extreame discouragement And now upon the Cessation if some reasonable and present respect bee not had of them and their doing and suffering for the time past And such provision for the future to bee made for them as for others of their quality in those parts They are like in short time to bee utterly ruined and destroyed The speedy prevention whereof is now by them and their said Agent in their behalfe humbly prayed and desired