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Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of a provost, 12 aldermen, 2 shiriffes, 24 burgesses and somanie freemen as they shall chuse to admit according to the increaseof the inhabitauntes ... to build a common hall or towne houseto be called the counsel! house of Derrie ... to erect a commongaole or prison . . . such corporators as be of one trade oroccupation shall and may devide themselves into companies, guildesor fraternities, and erect for everie such companie a common hallwherein to assemble. ^ Four years later Sir Caher ODogherty avenged himself for ablow on the face from the vice-provost, Sir George Pawlett, by laj^ingthe city in ashes ; but once again it arose. The citizens of Londonundertook a colony m the Plantation of Ulster, and under a chartergranted 29th March 1613, to the Society of the Governors andAssistants (London) of the New Plantation of Ulster, the city wasreconstituted by the name of Londonderry, with a maj^or, sheriffs,aldermen and burgesses. ^ Erck, Repertory of Patent Rolls, p. 165.2 Erck, p. 114.
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o a 220 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND THE CITY OF LONDONDERRY In six years from the granting of the second charter Pynnarreported that : The City of London-Derry is now compassed witha very strong wall, excellently made and neatly wrought, being allof good Hme and stone ; the circuit whereof is 284f perches at 18 ft.to the perch, besides the four gates, which contain 84 ft. ; and inevery place of the wall it is 24 ft. high and 6 ft. thick, backed by12 feet of earth and planked by nine bulwarks or bastions and twohalf bulwarks. Since the last survey there is built a school,which is 77 ft. in length and 25 ft. in breadth, with two other smallhouses. Other buUding there is not any within the city. The wholenumber of houses within the city are 92, . . . neither is thereroom enough to set up 100 more unless they will make them as Uttleas the first, and name each room a house. ^ Cathedral axd Parish Church of St Columb At first, as has been said, a peece of an ould monasterie, the

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