298 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION, 
There were still two Royalist garrisons in the neighbourhood— 
Mount Edgcumbe and Ince House. For the surrender of the 
former, Fairfax offered good terms. If Col. Edgcumbe would 
“ disearrison his house, lay down arms, and perswade those of the Cornish 
in whome hee hath good interest to sitt down and submitt to all orders and 
ordinances of Parlamnt, in that case I doe undertake that his house shall 
not be made a garrison, but that hee shall have the free liberty of it, security 
of his person and goods as to my army, and further, that hee shall have from 
mee a Ire. of recomendacion to the Parliament or committee for ye army, 
that hee may by them be dealt withal as one that deserves their favour for 
his liberal and seasonable coming in.” 
Mount Edgcumbe was eventually surrendered to Col. Hammond, 
Governor of Exeter, who-found in it thirty pieces of ordnance 
and store of arms and ammunition.* | 
Ince House held out until the end of March. On the 29th of 
that month a party from Plymouth summoned it to surrender. 
The garrison returned a scornful answer. Thereupon the Plymouth 
men sent for their cannon, wherewith to battle. The sight of 
the great guns took the scorn out of the Cavaliers; they begged 
quarter, and had it. The House was armed with four guns, and 
these, with ninety muskets, were taken. 
This was the last act of the Siege tragedy, which now with 
intervals had continued for over three years, and the inhabitants 
could reckon the price of their gallantry. The success was glorious, 
but it was bought at a terrible cost. The registers of St. Andrew 
show that during the Siege there were upwards of 3,000 interments, 
whereas under ordinary circumstances these should not have much 
exceeded 600. From the data at hand I estimate that of the extra 
3,000, 1,000 were soldierst and 2,000 townsfolk. Nor does this 
exhaust the fatality. It neither includes the losses on the side of 
the besiegers, whether in the field or from the fatal “‘ camp disease,” 
nor the deaths of those of the garrison whose bodies were buried 
where they fell. What the total loss of life was we can only 
estimate ; but taking the length of time over which the operations 
extended, noting that there were several occasions when over 100 
* WurrELock, p. 207. 
+ The churchwardens’ books of St. Andrew parish for the Siege years 
contain entries of nearly 500 graves for soldiers, poor folks, and Cavaliers, 
284 being for the year ending Easter, 1645. Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, to 
whom I am indebted for the information, states that these entries refer only 
to coffined interments, which were the exception. 
