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.  Never were greater pains taken to keep a community pure than within the sacred precincts of the Derry walls; and never was Protestantism more tenderly fostered by the state—­so far as secular advantages could do it.  The natives were treated as ‘foreigners.’  No trade was permitted except by the chartered British.  They were free of tolls all over the land, and for their sake restrictions were placed on everybody that could in any way interfere with their worldly interests.  So complete was the system of exclusion kept up by the English Government and the London corporation, in this grand experiment for planting religion and civility among a barbarous people, that, so late as the year 1708, the Derry corporation considered itself nothing more or less than a branch of the City of London!  In that year they sent an address to the Irish Society, to be presented through them to the queen.  ’In this address they stated themselves to be a branch of the City of London.  The secretary was ordered to wait upon the lord lieutenant of Ireland with the address and entreat the favour of his lordship’s advice concerning the presenting of the same to her majesty.’  A few days after it was announced that the address had been graciously received, and published in the Gazette.

The Irish were kept out of the enclosed part of the city till a late period.  In the memory of the present generation there was no Catholic house within the walls, and I believe it is not much longer since the Catholic servants within the sacred enclosure were obliged to go outside at night to sleep among their kinsfolk.  The English garrison did not multiply very fast.  In 1626 there were only 109 families in the city, of which five were families of soldiers liable to be removed.  Archbishop King stated that in 1690 the whole of the population of the parish, including the Donegal part, was about 700.