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he obtained entrance into Plymouth to effect such an object, by all 
the rules of war his life was forfeit. To me the balance of evidence 
seems to incline strongly in this direction. 
There were not many incidents of importance during the re- 
mainder of 1644. Grenville took up his head-quarters at Buckland 
Monachorum, and, according to Clarendon, busied himself chiefly 
in looking after his own interests, receiving the money allowed, but 
not raising anything like the force agreed. On the 4th October a 
party from Plymouth took Saltash, after a short encounter ; and on 
the 5th a boat party captured Millbrook and the fort at Insworth. 
This roused Grenville. He drove the Roundheads out of Millbrook, 
killing 40, and taking 33 prisoners.* Saltash cost more time and 
life. It had a garrison of 500. Of these, 200 were killed in the 
assault ; the other 300 refused quarter, were taken prisoners, and 
Grenville wrote to the king that he intended to hang them.t 
Possibly he did ; but there is no further record of their fate. This 
was on the 11th October. 
We now come to the year 1645. I have by good fortune found 
among the archives of our Corporation a valuable document, which 
relates to the proceedings of the defenders of Plymouth during this 
year, and contains a store of detailed information never heretofore 
made public. This document is neither more nor less than the 
accounts of the expenditure of the Committee of Defence, and as 
it is peculiarly interesting and singularly minute, I propose, before 
proceeding with the historical narrative, to throw its light upon the 
general condition of Plymouth, and of the arrangements for its 
defence during the year. The members of the committee included 
Col. Christopher Savery, Francis Godolphin,t Justinian Peard (the 
Mayor), Thomas Ceely (Mayor in 1641-2), John Cawse (Mayor in 
1636-37 and 1643-44), and on the death of the latter, Robert 
Gubbes (Mayor in 1650-51). Sir John Bampfylde, Col. Kerr, Col. 
Crocker, and John Beare, acted also, and the treasurer was Timothy 
Alsop, Mayor in 1648-49, and twice elected representative of the 
town under the Commonwealth. The Mayor was the chief of the 
* RusHworth, pt. iii. vol. ii. p. 717. ¢ Symonps’s “ Diary.” 
+t This was Francis Godolphin, of Treveneage, Cornwall, the father-in-law 
of John St. Aubyn, ancestor of Sir John St. Aubyn, m.p., himself a colonel 
of horse in the garrison, while his brother Thomas was colonel on the other 
side. Sir Francis Godolphin, the head of the Godolphin family, and all his 
sons, were staunch Royalists. 
