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where four guns were placed, and two by the Mill-pool, but 

 the great guns were fired but once. Hammond's men went 

 freely on, and possessed one fort after another, from the West 

 Gate to Little Dartmouth, while Col. Pride took the north 

 part of the town called Hardness, unto the Drawbridge. 

 Townstal Church, which was manned with above a hundred 

 men, and had in it ten guns, was next taken, so that now 

 there only remained the great fort, and the castle, into which 

 the Governor, with the Earl of Newport, and as many as 

 escaped, did nye." 



" Sir Thomas Fairfax's Dragoons, with two companys of 

 Firelocks and some seamen, were ordered to alarm the great 

 fort, wherein was Sir Henry Carey with his regiment, 

 twelve guns, and store of amunition, but they came willingly 

 to terms, and Sir Thomas Fairfax agreed that Sir Henry 

 Carey should march away with the rest, leaving the arms, 

 ordnance, ammunition, and provisions, in the fort, and 

 engaging never to take up arms against the parliament, which 

 was done by them, and the next morning the Governor 

 yielded the castle."* 



An extract from a letter of the period shows that Fairfax 

 now turned his attention to Salcombe. 



"The General then sent for five hundred men from Ply- 

 mouth, that he might employ those of his own in reducing 

 other places which was not then resolved, only a party was 

 sent to fall upon a fort near Salcombe, a harbour that lies 

 between Dartmouth and Plymouth, which hath Frigots in it 

 that much infest the seas.f" 



These Salcombe frigates had made themselves a name, and 



* Whitelocke's Memorials. 



f " The Moderate Intelligencer impartially communicating Martial Affairs 

 to the Kingdom of England." 



