On the evening of the nineteenth of April, a trumpeter came to the southern gate, and asked whether the engagements into which the Governor had entered would be fulfilled.

The answer was that the men who guarded these walls had nothing to do with the Governor's engagements, and were determined to resist to the last.
On the following day a messenger of higher rank was sent, Claude Hamilton, Lord Strabane, one of the few Roman Catholic peers of Ireland.
Murray, who had been appointed to the command of one of the eight regiments into which the garrison was distributed, advanced from the gate to meet the flag of truce; and a short conference was held.
Strabane had been authorised to make large promises.

The citizens should have a free pardon for all that was past if they would submit to their lawful Sovereign.

Murray himself should have a colonel's commission, and a thousand pounds in money.

"The men of Londonderry," answered Murray, "have done nothing that requires a pardon, and own no Sovereign but King William and Queen Mary.