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as to the rates of pay, but herein I was disappointed, the individual 
entries being too few, and moreover varying too much, to make it 
safe to draw any very definite conclusions. Richard Phillips is 
paid £1 8s., a week’s pay as lieutenant. Then we have under 
date July 10th, “‘Pd Margery Yeolande for 3 weekes paye due unto 
Walter Yeolande deceased lately taken by the enemy at Plym- 
stoke 14s.” Capt. Shilston Calmady had £5 5s. for one week’s 
pay ; Capt. Burgess only £1 1s. Lieut.-Col. Elias Crymes £2 16s. 
for three weeks’ arrears of billet money; but a lieutenant only 
£1 8s. Lieut.-Col. Moore is credited £10 10s. for one week’s 
pay. George Hall, drum-major of the town regiment, with the 
rest of the drummers, £4—for what length of service is not stated. 
Gunners in the outworks were paid at the rate of 7s. a week. The 
chaplains of the garrison were not neglected. April 9th, ‘ Paid 
Mr. Stephen Midhope minister for his labour in ye ministery wh in 
this garrison the summ of £5.” Mr. Francis Porter, afterwards the first 
minister of Charles Church, had for his ministry a like sum; Mr. 
J. Wills also £5, and Mr. George Shugge £10. What time these 
payments covered is not stated. Abraham Cheere, the first recorded 
pastor of the Baptist Church of Plymouth, who served in the train- 
bands as a full private, was ‘“‘for some few weeks, unknown to him 
and against his will, mustered a chaplain to the fort, but quickly 
got himself discharged of that again.”* His name does not appear 
in the accounts. 
The Committee had in charge the whole question of supply. 
There are records of payment for boots, biscuit, beer, forage, and 
various articles of clothing. At times funds ran short, and then 
they borrowed from all who were willing to lend until fresh 
supplies arrived. And they were practically grateful for the relief 
of their necessities. On the 20th of December, Capt. Somester 
had £5 “for his paines in bringing down money for the supply of 
the garrison.” It must have been a great slice of luck when, on 
20th November, 1645, the Earl of Warwick brought in a barque 
laden with kerseys for clothing the King’s soldiers, which he had 
taken. 
What strikes me as very quaint is the methodical way in which 
the Plymothians managed the defence. The accounts abound with 
entries of payments for masons’ and carpenters’ work on the wall 
and at the outworks, which seems to have been treated quite as a 
* “ Words in Season,’’ by A. CHEARE. 
