the royalties and profits thereunto belonging; and should have their own ships and goods, which should happen to be wrecked at sea in Ballyshannon and Oderfleete, and in all the coasts, ports, and creeks, along and between them, saved and reserved to themselves.

"Seventeenth. That the City should have the like liberty of fishing and fowling upon all that coast as other subjects had; and that it should be lawful for them to draw thier nets and pack their fish upon any part of that coast that they fish upon, and carry the same away; and that they have the several fishing and fowling in the city of Derry, and town and county of Coleraine, and all the lands to be undertaken by them; and in the river of Lough Foyle, so far as it floweth, and of the river of Bann unto Lough Neagh.

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Eighteenth. That no flax, hemp, or yarn, unwoven, be carried out of the ports of the Derry and Coleraine, without licence from the city officers; and that no hides be transported raw, without licence, out of those ports.

"Nineteenth. That as well the cities and towns, as the county of Coleraine, be freed from all patents of privileges theretofore granted to any person; and that thereafter no patent of privilege be granted within the said several cities, towns, and county of Coleraine, and other the undertaken lands; and that the said city of Derry, town and county of Coleraine, should be freed from all compositions and taxes which might be exacted or imposed by the governor or governors of those parts.

"Twentieth. That the City should have the castle of Culmore, and the land thereunto, in fee-farm, they maintaining a sufficient ward of officers therein.

Twenty-first. That the liberty of the City of Derry and Coleraine should extend three miles every way.

"Twenty-second. That the City should have such further liberties to the Derry and Coleraine, as upon view of the charters of London, the Cinque Ports, and Newcastle-upon

Tyne, or the City of Dublin, should be found fit for those places.

"Twenty-third. That all particular men's interests in the places about the Derry and county of Coleraine, and in other the undertaken lands be cleared and freed to the city, (except as excepted in the sixth article.)

Twenty-fourth. That sufficient forces should be mainAtained at the King's charges, for safety of the undertakers, 34 for a convenient time.

Twenty-fifth. That for settling and securing all things touching the said Plantation, his Majesty would give his royal assent to acts of parliament in England, and the like in Ireland, to pass.

"Twenty-sixth. That the City should have time, during the term of seven years, to make such reasonable demands as time should shew to be needful, but could not presently be foreseen.

Twenty-seventh. Lastly, that the City should, with all speed, set forward the said Plantation, in such sort as that there should be sixty houses built in Derry, and forty houses in Coleraine, by the 1st of November then next following, with convenient fortifications, and the rest of the houses, with the fortifications, should be built and perfected by the 1st of November, 1611."

One part of the said articles was signed by the Right Honourable Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of England; Robert, Earl of Salisbury, Lord high Treasurer of England; Henry, Earl of Northampton, Lord Privy Seal; Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's household; Edward, Earl of Worcester, Master of his Majesty's Horse; George, Earl of Dunbar; Edward, Lord Zouch; William, Lord Knowles; John, Lord Stanhope; Sir John Herbert, Knight, one of his Majesty's Secretaries; and Sir Julius Cæsar, Knight, Chancellor of his Majesty's

Exchequer, being all of the Privy Council; and another part was signed by Sir Henry Montague and sixteen other persons, being the committees appointed by act of CommonCouncil, on the behalf of the Mayor and Commonalty.

This agreement being thus executed by the parties, the Court ordained, that for the purpose of conducting the said Plantation, a Company should be constituted and established within the City of London, which should consist of one Governor, one Deputy to the Governor, and twenty-four Assistants; and that the Governor, and five of the said Assistants, should be Aldermen of the City of London; and Mr. Recorder, of the City, should likewise be one of the same Assistants; and the Deputy, and the rest of the Assistants, should be commoners of the same City; which company thenceforward, in every year, should be elected and chosen at the first Common-Council to be held after the Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary; at which time the Deputy, and twelve of the Assistants for the year precedent, might be removed, and one other Deputy, and twelve other Assistants in their steads, should be newly elected, to join with the other twelve Assistants, that were not removed for the year ensuing; and the next year, those that continued the year before might be removed, so that twelve of the Assistants might continue the space of two years.

The Court accordingly appointed the members of the Society, of which William Cockaine, Alderman, and one of the Sheriffs of the City, was Governor, and William Towerson Deputy Governor, and it was ordained, that the said Governor, Deputy Governor, and the Assistants, should continue in their office for one year, beginning at the Feast of the Purification then next ensuing, and that at the next Common Council to be held after the expiration of the said year, the new election of a Governor, Deputy, and Assistants, should be had in form aforesaid, and so from year to year. And the Court further enacted, that the said Company then

elected and appointed, or thereafter from time to time to be elected and appointed, or any nine of them, whereof the Governor or Deputy for the time being, to be one, should have full power and authority to hold and keep a Court, and in the same to treat, debate and determine of all matters and causes concerning the business that to them in their discretions should think fit. And also to direct appoint and command what should be done or performed on the behalf of the City, concerning the said Plantation; and also should give direction in England, either by letters or otherwise sent to Ireland, for the ordering, managing and disposing of all things whatsoever concerning the intended plantation, or any thing belonging to the Citizens of London's undertaking in that part of Ireland called Ulster; as also for the receiving, ordering, disposing, and disbursing of all sums of money that were or should be collected or gathered for that purpose, and generally for any other cause, matter, or thing whatsoever, incident to or belonging to the business and affairs in Ulster; and in the courts so to be holden, should have full power and authority to nominate and appoint their Clerk, Beadle, and such other Officers as they in their discretion should think fit; and that whatsoever should be done, decreed, or resolved by and at any such Court so to be holden, should be firm and stable; and the Court of Common Council thereby declared it ratified and confirmed by them. The wardrobe in Guildhall was appointed to be the place where the Courts of the Company should be held. The times of meeting were to be appointed by the Governor, or Deputy Governor, who were respectively to give orders for summoning the Company together. The City Chamberlain was at the same Court of Common Council appointed the Treasurer of the monies to be raised of the City for the purposes of the said Plantation, who was to pay all monies conformably to warrants to be signed by the Governor, or Deputy Governor, with three of the Assistants of the Company.

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The Society being thus established by the Court of Common Council, Tristram Beresford and John Rowley, were appointed general agents for the City, who immediately proceeded to Ireland; and soon afterwards the Society were put in possession of the estates.*

Arrangements were at the same time made in London, for raising and collecting the sum agreed to be raised by the City for the purposes of the Plantation, and in building towns and fortifications; which was, at length, determined to be done according to the assessment of the corn rate, made on the various companies of the City. This sum, however, was found to be insufficient; and other assessments were from time to time, occasionally made, which eventually exceeded the sum of £60,000.

14th April, 1611.-The new settlers, soon after receiving possession of the estates, made an exchange with Sir Thomas Phillips, then governor of the county of Coleraine, of the castle of Lymavaddy, and three thousand acres of ground adjoining it, being part of their division for other lands belonging to him. Sir Thomas Phillips afterwards made himself very obnoxious to the Irish Society, by intermeddling in their concerns with regard to the Plantation; and the Governor and Assistants remonstrated with him, by correspondence, on the occasion.

21st December, 1812.—The King having been informed, that the settlers were negligent in performing the conditions

* About this time the hereditary order of Knighthood, with the title of Baronet was introduced; King James the First devised this species of honour, which was purchaseable; that from the sale of such titles to all those who chose thus to contribute, the charges of maintaining the English power in the remote province of Ulster might in part be defrayed, and hence it is, that the coat of arms borne by \{} Baronets, is the armorial ensign of Ulster. Vide Sampson's Memoir, p. 13.

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