HISTORY. 
the plantation to whom the mayor and corporation presented a petition, complaining of many 
grievances, which they suffered by the conduct of the society. J 
1625. The rents of the company of Londoners sequestered by order of the privy council 
but not carried into execution. 9 
1626. A commission for a court of justice to be held in the city, directed to, and authorizino- 
the mayor, vice mayor, recorder or his deputy, and all such aldermen as, according to the tenor of 
the commission of King James the 1st., under the great seal of England, dated 2d July, 1613- 
11°, are, or shall be made justices of the peace within the city, to hold the said court of’justice 
according to such instructions as in certain schedules were annexed to the said commission and 
were thereby limited and appointed, and according to the tenor of his now Majesty’s letters, 
dated in March, 1625, for the granting of new letters patent of all officers of public justice’ 
whose commissions were determined by the decease of James the 1st._(2 Car 1 3 a ’ 
pars. d. 39.) v ’ 
1627. The sequestration, by order of the privy council in 1625, taken off. 
1628. 3d May. By the king’s letter, the city and county of Londonderry was sequestrated, 
and the rents levied for the king’s use. This sequestration was revoked and taken off by the 
lords in England on the 28th of July following. 
August 22. Sequestered again by letter of King Charles the 1st., and the rents ordered by 
grant to Sir R. Phillips. 
1629. The following return was made of the total disbursements by the Londoners in 
Londonderry from the 2nd of January, 1609, to this year. 
For 77-J houses, at £140 an house, 
For 33 houses, at £80 an house. 
For the Lord Bishop’s house. 
For the walls and fortifications, .... 
For digging the ditch, and filling earth for the Rampire. 
for levelling earth to lay the Rampire, £500, 
For building a Faggot-Quay at the water-gate, 
For two Quays at the lime-kilns, . 
For the building of the town-house. 
For two Quays at the ferry, 
For carriage, and mounting the ordnance, 
For arms, . 
For a guard-house, ..... 
For the platforms for bulwarks, . . 
For some works done at the old church, 
For some work done at the turnpike, 
For sinking 22 cellars, and sundry of the houses not done at 
at 20s. a cellar, one with another, 
For the building of lime-kilns, 
£1500; anc 
first, 
£10,850 
2,680 
500 
8,357 
2,000 
100 
10 
500 
60 
40 
558 
50 
300 
40 
6 
440 
120 
26,611 
bum total, as given in the commissioners’ account, . . . 27,197 
1632. The whole county and city of Londonderry again sequestrated, and the rents levied 
lor the king’s use. Bishop Bramhall was appointed chief receiver.— {Hist, of the Irish Soc.) 
1635. At Michaelmas this year, by sentence of the court of star-chamber, it was adjudged 
that the letters patent of king James the 1st. should be surrendered, and brought into court to be 
cancelled. (See Carte, vol. 1 , p. 83.) 
1637. The lord chancellor, with the advice of the judges, king’s counsel, &c., gave judgment 
that the letters passed to the society of Londoners, and the enrolment thereof, should be revoked, 
cancelled, and made void, and the said city and county seized unto the king’s hands. In confor¬ 
mity with this judgment, the city was accordingly seized into the king’s hands.—{See Parlia¬ 
mentary Register at this year). 
1638. The king, at a dinner given him by the corporation of London, publicly expresses his 
l egret for the judgment given for taking away his father’s grant to the Society, and promises a re¬ 
storation to the corporation, but the rebellion breaking out afterwards, his Majesty’s intentions 
were not fulfilled. 
1641. 20th August. The sentence of the star-chamber was annulled by vote of parliament, 
and a resolution entered that the Society should be restored to the same estate as previous to that 
sentence, but this resolution was not carried into effect till 165. 
At the breaking out of the rebellion, on the 22nd of October, in this year, the surprise of 
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