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detailed I have no means of saying; but in all likelihood some 
must be duplicate versions of the same event. Tonkin, the 
historian of Cornwall, supplies us with the additional fact concern- 
ing the last, that Arundel, who was the son of the gallant Governor 
of Pendennis, familiarly called ‘‘Old Tilbury” and “John for 
the King,” was shot dead in the entrenchments by one Capt. 
Braddon.* 
There were still troubles within the walls. A feminine malig- 
nant and traitor was detected holding correspondence with the 
enemy, and committed to the Castle. The articles against her were 
that she sent suits of apparel to the renegadoes Pike and Collins ; 
that she discovered to the enemy the quantity of powder in the 
town; that she invited the enemy to assault it; and that she 
desired a Cavalier, Major Harris, to quarter in her house when 
the town was taken, informing him moreover that the Protestant 
religion in Plymouth was decayed and breathing its last gasp. 
There was another “virago,” but she was allowed to “sleep for a 
while that her shame and doom might be the heavier.” 
From the Weekly Account of July 30th, 1644, we learn that 
Plymouth was well supplied with provisions: beef, 23d. per Ib. ; 
cheese, coal, and meal, cheaper than in London. The chief wants 
were of money and river-water, though there were plenty of wells. 
The Cavaliers, therefore, must have cut off the leat. 
Col. Gould had been an officer of the most approved Puritan 
type, purging “the forces from swearers, drunkards, and abominable 
livers, causing the town and garrison to be very careful in observing 
the Lord’s-day and days of humiliation, and to be frequently present 
at the ordinances of the Lord of hosts.” Col. Martin, we may 
presume, followed in his footsteps. So far as actual warfare was 
concerned, he was the most energetic and daring commander the 
town had. “Tough Old Plymouth” was now the only place in 
Devon and Cornwall that adhered to the Parliament. Beside it, 
Poole, and Lyme, the whole of the West of England was in 
* Hats, the Cornish historian, says that James Hals, of Efford, was 
Lieut.-Colonel in Colonel Boscawen’s regiment defending Plymouth. He 
was captured in a sortie, and sent prisoner to Lydford. Here some of his 
fellow-officers— Leach, Morris, and Brabyn [Brabant?]—were executed 
without trial for high treason by Grenville. Hals was spared, but kept in 
prison until, twenty months afterwards, Essex in his march into the West 
set the prisoners free. While in prison, Browne gave him a copy of his 
Lydford Law “ for his diversion.” 
