CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
oShertv-^r t0 ! Felimy J 110 been placed in command of the garrison by 
sSi: anr two —* «-»p* & »"*»»“ 
At the plantation, which followed in 1609, it was an article of the agreement with the London 
fa°rm 01 0 ’ T •“ th<3 clt ? ji h ? uld have the castle of Culmore, and the land thereunto in fee- 
tarm they maintaining a sufficient ward of officers therein.” In 1618, Thomas Raven was em 
P/°f n d measurm S and settm g out the fortifications at Derry and Culmore • and 
tWer WaS er6Cted at tMs P eri0d ’ as * does not a S ree m situation 
From this period down to the present, a regular succession of governors has been kent ud 
though, as a military station, Culmore has been disused for more than a century Indeed’ 
even so early as 1625, the default of the Londoners in not keeping a proper ward in it ac’ 
cording to their agreement, were made one of the articles of complaint ao-ainst them as the 
commissioners reported they had apparently violated their engagement At tffis t me fm -1 
contained fourteen pieces of ordnance, and the corporation were directed^ to^ hale them suffi 
ciently manned, according to the articles and charter. The corporation however^ mldean 
swer to the king, that they had not broken their covenant, “ for they’have ever had (the 
thTnumh lder f fh a su ® clent ward tllere , ™d now in those times of danger, they have increised 
the number of the warders according to the direction of the Lord Blayniy ” lnc ^ased 
A new commission having been issued in 1628, to inquire into the defaults of the Irish 
coi! oration they were instructed to inquire “whether the City of Derry should have the 
ward and ““T* 7 T fann - the -Y maintaining a sufficient 
huh i* therein whether is there any such ward there maintained, and in what manner 
hath it been maintained, by how many men, and how furnished.” To these inauines the 
sag# =- ^4 ssr-fis ss ss 
777 7 7 116 had ™ m the Londoners an addition of 10 men, at 6d. per diem a niece 
of the i°rlT7 ke t P,n fn f l! 16 saldfort ; and since that time Captain John Bingham hath charge 
of the said Fort and Castle, with the same allowance of men, money, and land” S 
lo the question—“ how the Castle of Culmore hath formerly been o-uarded with wards 
and gunners —the commissioners replied-_“that how the Pnctle f" n i c wa f. 
not find St" ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ answering £h aSe, ImongThom we t 
Hcnf fl v d ? “To f ° ne T 1111 ® 1 ' : as for ordna n c e and the other provisions we find these par 
£^ aTi ^ ble > 15 ™es, 14 scourers 
27 th\T bSe<1U f lt llls . tor y of Culmore is thus stated in the history of the Irish Society •— 
of P 2 l 7tl ^ ojember. A report was made by the Committee as to the original establishment 
of Culmore Fort, whereby they stated, that his late Majesty King Charks the Second b^m 
ScSr. r °k Lh >r -IWS&’s 
castle and fort thS ov lh fT ^ > estlr ? atlon > three hundred acres, with the said 
the said caslle and W - 17 7 ^ &nd malntalI i> at their °wn costs and charges, in 
officers as should 1 ’ Wal r> d In 7 ™ an y men well and sufficiently armed, and expert 
havTng’s;i7tdlredor e a777d y t i° r ^ further found that the said society 
tk« yearly Lm of £200 for the ^“ 0 ! o?lhT»ei“?Jtiria for!" t be "''.L 4 "'' -T 7 W “ h 
garrison therein, end providing ,?„ n with and'tTS SSSSK 
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