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PETITION OF CAPT. THOMAS LEYSTER.
Deputie, as by their several acquittances wHl appear, whereby their assent to the said composition is implied-that the petitioners ought to content themselves with what is found due to them according to the said former composition for their particulars. But that no other succeeding officer in that Garrison shall be concluded by any such agreement or composition, but that he have the full benefit of the Right Honl. the Lord Deputy's establishment of three shillings per week, as is usual in other garrisons, unless by the officers of the Corporation they be provided of competent lodging with reasonable fire and candlelight requisite ~nd ·fit for persons of their quality. W 14 • ST. LEGER. To the Right Honl. the Lord Deputy General. The humble petition of Capt. Thomas Leyster, and the rest of the officers and soldiers of the Earl of Clane-Ricard's foot Company. In all humbleness showing that whereas yr. Lop. hath been graciously pleased to require the Mayor and Sheriffs of the City of Corcke to pay and satisfy unto your petitioners their billet-money from the time of their rising from Corcke upon their marching to Crookhaven until the time of their return to Corcke again, So it is, Right Honl., that the said Mayor and Sheriffs, being served with your Lop's. order in that behalf, have not only refused to give obedience thereunto in making yr. suppliants any man- ner of satisfaction, but in a poor and unheard of way take the boldness upon them to expound the true meaning of the said order to a contrary sense, viz., as if they were to-allow yor. Petrs. no allowance for their billets until their second rising and return, and so,' out of a vain assumed kind of Prophetique spirit, take upon them to know that yr. Lop., before any suqh declaration be made or directions given, intends to send yr. suppliants to Crookhaven back again. The premises considered, it is humbly desired that the said Mayor and Sheriffs may be punished for their contempt and disrespect to yr. Lop's. commands, and be forced, notwithstanding their stubbornness, to pay the said billets, and to be conformable to your honour's directions for the future. And yr. supps. shall pray. Dublin Castle, 15 ltfarch, 1636. We refer this matter unto our very good lord, the Lord President of
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