290 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
was another commissary, named Clapp. The first entry under 
this head, on the 17th February, is for £459 18s. ; but the amount 
gradually and largely increased, apparently indicating that as the 
year went on the garrison was considerably strengthened. In the 
last week of December the amount thus paid was £723 3s. 2d. ; 
and in January, 1646, it reached its highest mark, £734 19s. 8d. 
These payments did not include the cost of maintaining the guards 
at the town walls and the outworks. Their pay was handed over 
fortnightly —sometimes, when money ran short, once in three 
weeks—to the officers in command. The first entry under this 
head, also in February, amounts to £134 18s. 6d., which includes 
the cost of coals and candle-light. The outworks were dismal 
places, I fancy, in the winter nights; and the soldiers would have 
fared badly without fires. Candle-light was an absolute necessity. 
It was not all paid for in the lump; for I find an entry, March 
4th: “George Batten for candle-light for Frankfort, ye 2 halfe 
moones, and ye drawbridge at Gascoine gate, 17s. 8d. ;” 
there are others of the same character. Candles, it may be of 
interest to know, cost 53d. per lb., 6 doz. for Stonehouse Guard 
being charged in November £1 13s. The fact that the pay for 
“ve commanders and gunners of ye outworkes and wall” was 
handed over to the officer in command, has preserved the names of 
those who at different times occupied that honourable post. The 
amount paid per week ranged from about £70—£69 6s. 6d. is 
given in one week in March, and £72 18s. 11d. in another—down 
to a little over £50. There is an entry in December that Capt. 
Walters had £113 11s. for two weeks’ payment of the com- 
manders, gunners, and seamen of the outworks, ‘“shippes in 
Lary,” and redoubts on the town wall. The variation in amount 
is easily accounted for, since the number of men on guard would 
depend mainly on the activity or inactivity of the enemy. What 
the ships in Laira were there is no record ; but there are entries of 
payments made to the masters of vessels named the Welfare, 
Diana Hopewell, Elizabeth and Susan, Hampton, Hopewell of 
Plymouth, Dymond, Endeavour, and Amity of Plymouth, em- 
ployed in the public service in various ways, the latter in May at 
Laira Point. Governor Kerr received £8 a week towards his 
housekeeping—something akin, I presume, to the modern table 
allowance. 
I had hoped that the accounts would furnish some exact details 
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