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<NAME>Colm MacCrossan</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF THE Governor, Officers and Soldiers actu|ally concerned in the Defence of London-Derry, in the Kingdom of Ireland.</HEAD>
<P>THE Great Service which was performed in <HI>London-Derry,</HI> as well as the Sufferings of that Gari&s;on are &s;ufficiently known, and as the Pro|vidence of God gave Succe&s;s to their Endeavours, for the defending the remander of the Prote&s;tant and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Intere&s;t in <HI>Ireland;</HI> &s;o the Ho|nourable Hou&s;e of Commons have expre&s;s'd their E&s;teem of that Im|portant Service in divers Votes, both of Thanks and for Rewards to the Relations of tho&s;e who had &s;uffered in that Siege.</P>
<P>And no doubt but this Honourable Hou&s;e de&s;ign their Favours to tho&s;e who had an Actual Hand in the Defence of that Place; and particularly to &s;uch who are &s;o far from any Reward for their Service in that Place, that the Governor, Of|ficers and Soldiers have never had any Pay for all the time of that Siege, tho their Accounts are &s;tated.</P>
<P>Upon Colonel <HI>Lundy</HI>'s Abandoning the Town, all the <HI>Aldermen</HI> of the Town left the Place except Three, Two of which had been Officers under Colonel <HI>Lundy,</HI> and refu&s;ed to Engage again&s;t the late King <HI>James,</HI> and his <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Army, during the Siege: the Mayor died before the Siege began, and no Per&s;ons pretended to any &s;hare in the directing of the Defence of that Town but Colonel <HI>Micchelburne,</HI> who had his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty's Commi&s;&s;ion, Mr. <HI>Baker,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Walker.</HI></P>
<P>The Inhabitants, and the Neighbours of the Town, made One &s;ingle Compa|ny, who were called the Company of <HI>Gunners:</HI> Tho&s;e were all the Inhabitants, who acted in the Defence of that City: The other Defendants were Per&s;ons from other Parts of the Country, who voluntarily came in: The Suburbs, one one part were de&s;troyed in Colonel <HI>Lundy</HI>'s Government.</P>
<P>All the Works that were made before the Siege was a Ravling without <HI>Bi&s;hops-Gate:</HI> Colonel <HI>Lundy</HI> had Money from <HI>England,</HI> though that Ravling could not co&s;t 100 <HI>l.</HI></P>
<P>The other Out-works were made after the Siege began, and the Soldiers of each Regiment performed that voluntarily with the &s;ame alacrity with which they de|fended the City.</P>
<P>As to Provi&s;ions, the Inhabitants of <HI>Derry</HI> were &s;u&s;tained by the Country Provi|&s;ions, as they were defended by the Arms of the Country.</P>
<P>As to Arms and Ammunition, if any was provided be&s;ides what was taken from the Enemy, and what was &s;ent from <HI>England,</HI> there was five times the proportion left after the Siege was rais'd, of what was before the War began.</P>
<P>And as to Cloaths, tho&s;e fortunate Men, who hazarded them&s;elves for the De|fence of their Country, were not &s;ollicitous for either Pay or Cloaths, when they every moment ventured their Lives for the Publick; and if any private Per&s;ons contracted Debts during the Siege, they have paid the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And the Mayor and Aldermen of <HI>Derry</HI> have particularly Certified for Colonel <HI>Mitchelburn</HI>'s Regiment under the Common Seal, dated <HI>Febr.</HI> the 2d. 1690.</P>
<P><HI>Therefore it is humbly hoped this Honourable Hou&s;e will own tho&s;e who were real Actors, and &s;uffer'd in the Defence of</HI> London-derry, <HI>and will plea&s;e to con&s;ider in the fir&s;t place, tho&s;e who Acted for the Prote&s;tant Religion and the</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>In|tere&s;t in the Defence of</HI> Derry, <HI>without either Pay, Recompence or Reward hitherto. And after they &s;hall be con&s;ider'd, then tho&s;e who left the City, and retired to either</HI> England <HI>or</HI> Scotland, <HI>may Merit the Thoughts of this Honour|able Hou&s;e.</HI></P>
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