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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
in Starr chamber, dividing the power of y e church, 
between them, a copy is in this booke. 
1638- 39 199. W 1 ? Heal. 2 d tyme [Hele]. 
Plym 0 devided Into two parishes, by parliament. 
1639- 40 200. Rob. Gubbs [Gubes] [Gubbes]. 
1640- 41 201. W m Birch [Berthie] [_Byrche]. 
1641- 42 202. Tho. Ceely. 2 d tyme. 
1642- 43 203. Phil. Francis. 
None to be chosen mayor who had been mayor within six years. — W.B. 
Earl Stamford, writing from Plymouth February 7, 1643, to the Speaker 
of the House of Lords, says — Mayor of town is as brave a man as ever 
breathed, and they want nothing that his purse, credit, or power can 
help them to. Town then besieged so close that the enemy invited people 
to carry away the plunder of the town, then, when they had them in 
Devon, closed the passes, and obliged them to serve. 
1643- 44 204. Jn? Caws. 2 d tyme. 
prince Maurice assaults plym 0 Sunday morning, 
in vain, plimmouth besieged by the Royalists. 
1644- 45 205. Justinian Peard. 
1645- 46 206. Bartholomew Nicols [Nicholl]. 
The new church, called Charles church, In plym- 
mouth began. I was born feb. 27, 1646. 
In April, 1646, in consideration of the charges of the mayors being 
so great, and the allowance so small that it caused them to exhaust 
their estates and neglect their private affairs, it was ordered that the 
rents and profits of the shambles should be settled on them. It was 
soon found, however, that the corporation were themselves in serious 
financial difficulties (without doubt the losses incurred during the siege 
had much to do with this), and the grant to the mayor was modified, 
his worship having to pay £13 a year, the old rent, and £30 interest of 
£600 advanced to the Poor's Portion, out of the market profits. Sub- 
sequently it was ordered that the £30 should be reimbursed by the 
corporation; and eventually, in 1738, when great efforts at retrench- 
ment were made, a fixed allowance of £100 was substituded, with the 
use of the recently-purchased mayoralty house for the entertainments 
(restricted to feasts on Lambert's and Michaelmas-days, and cakes and 
wine on Freedom-day), the profits of the house going to the corporation. — 
W.B. The freeman's dinner was given up in the mayoralty of Mr. 
George Eastlake (1819-20), and the mayor's allowance stopped. 
1646- 47 207. Xpy Ceely. 
Member 1659. 
1647- 48 208. Rich. Evans [Evenes]. 
1648- 49 209. Tim? Alsop [Alsopp]. 
Member 1656-59. 
