CORNWALL AND THE SPANISH ARMADA. 151 



ProlDably St. Catherine's at Fowey, St. Mawes, and Pen- 

 dennis were the only defences erected, and with regard to the 

 latter a very curious bill of charges disbursed by Sir John 

 Arundell, giving the price of labour in 1553, in still in existence,* 

 which is worth giving in full, and runs as follows : — 



" These charges Sir John Arundell, of Langherne, in the 

 county of Cornwall, Knight, bestowed about suche ordinance and 

 other necessaries at the Castle of Pendennis in ffalmouth by the 

 commandment of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Mayre as y* 

 may apere by her Grace's letters bearing date 13**^ of Marche in 

 the fyrste yere of her most gracious rayne, which charges 

 continued tyll discharged by her Grace's letters bearing date 

 the ^3"' of Aprill in the same yere. 



Imprimis paid for tymbre to stocke a Slyug and fowler 

 more made there of 6 axxelltres and 17 forloges with 

 other necessaries for the ordynance. 23s. 8d. 



pin- paid for raxxs for olage of the ordynance. 28d, 



jtm. payde for towe and tallowe for the ordynance. 12d. 



Itm. payde for a ladle for the fawken.f 16d. 



jtm. payde to a smythe for 22 days having 8d. by the daye. 148. 8d. 



jtm. payde to the smythes man for the same 22 dayes 

 afore 6d. by the daye. lis. 



Jtm. payde to a carpenter for 18 dayes stocking of 

 ordynance havinge 8d. a daye. 12s. 



Jtm. payde to his man for the same 18 dayea havinge 6d. 

 - the daye. 9s. 



I*ni' payde for iron to makenayles, spikes, etc., and bandes 



to the ordynance. 7d. 



Itm. payde for smithes cole to worke with. 2s. 6d. 



S"i^- £5 17s. 4d. 



Charges payde the Capten and 10 soldyers for 32 dayes that is to saye 

 from the 20th of Marche tyll the 2 1st of Aprille in the fyrste yore of the 

 Eayne of Queene Mary, the captaine havinge 18d. a dayo and the soldyers 

 6d. a daye so that the hole is £10 8s. 



S^!^- Tot: £16 53. Od. 



The summer of 1545, when the invasion of England was 

 attempted by the French, found the nation not unpreparenl. 

 "The Abbey lands had been melted into cannon ; the swords 



* State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth, vol. 8, No. 16, 

 t Falcon, a small piece of ordnance. 



