a house 2,680 For the Lord Bishop's house 500 For the walls and fortifications 8,357 For digging the ditch and filling earth for the rampire 1,500 For levelling earth to lay the rampire 500 For building a faggot quay at the water-gate 100 For two quays at the lime kilns 10 For the building of the town house 500 For the quays at the ferry 60 For carriage and mounting the ordnance 40 For arms 558 For a guardhouse 50 For the platforms for bulwarks 300 For some work done at the old church 40 For some work done at the town pike 6 For sinking 22 cellars, and sundry of the houses not done at first, at 20 s.

cellar, one with another 440 For the building of lime kilns 120 ______ 26,611 ______ Sum total, as given in the Commissioners' account 27,197 The exclusive and protective system utterly failed to accomplish its purpose in keeping out the Irish.
Sir Thomas Phillips made a muster-roll in 1622, in which he gives 110 as the number of settlers in the city of Derry capable of bearing arms.

There are but two Irish names in the list--Ermine M'Swine, and James Doherty.

The first, from his Christian name, seemed to have been of mixed blood, the son of a judge, which would account for his orthodoxy.

But his presence might have reminded the citizens unpleasantly of the Irish battle-axes.