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 278 THE CASTLE. regiment, adding, "those that they gather out of the country run away daily;" that next day six more ploughs were drawn up into the Castle Green to be loaded, and 40 horse, with pack saddles, crooks, and panniers, were all sent after the rest ; and on the same day 30 hogsheads of cider had been brought into Launceston from Werrington, to be sent westward. We may note that the Prince was now in hourly dread of falling into the hands of the Parliamentarians, and, thus pressed, his Royal Highness, on Monday, March 2nd, embarked for the Scilly Isles, which he reached on Wednesday the 4th. A few days later he sailed for France, where he joined his mother, the Queen Henrietta. War had, of course, left its footprints at Launceston. Some troops were maintained there, at the partial cost of the town, from the moment of Fairfax's departure, until long afterwards. Thus we find that "otten strawe" was supplied to the guards on the 5th March. On the 6th the market-house was repaired for their use, and wood and candles were for many subsequent months regularly delivered to them. A sum of £5 10s. was imposed on the town as the cost of a horse. William Noble " desireth to be [and he was] allowed for readinge proclamations and warrants, and for setting and warninge the watches." On the 6th March a shrowd was supplied "for a sholdeer w cb dyed att Thomas Abrams 6s. o^d." 16th. Dewance Alexander was paid 3s. " for keepinge and attending of a sicke souldeere," and " John Winnocott's wife for the like 2s." And then the sexton intervenes with his claims " for making 5 soulgers graves 3s. 4d., for making a grave for a solder that was kild downe in Tinckes' garden 2s. ;" and "for a grave for a souder that dyed att M r Edgecomb's 8d." The "quarteringe of shouldeers," and "showes [shoes] for a shouldeere," form other items of expenditure. It is recorded, in a scarce pamphlet, that on the 21st