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CIVIL WAR. 265 Itm. I delyved unto M r Piper, maior, [of the succeeding year], on pown of powder for the King's server i8d. Itm. Mor to M r Bevell Escott on pown of mich to keep sentanell 6d. Itm. Payd for making up of the walls be the dorer in the back lane by order of Capten Pendarvis 27s. [This has reference to the town wall adjoining Northgate on the east.] Item. For mysealf and Nobell to ride to Bodment to apear ther befor my Lord Mowen [Mohun], Ser Ralf Hopton, and other Commissioners, 10s. 22nd April. For 2 seame wood, 1 li candells ; and at midnight there was a larrum, and had more 4 li of candells. 23rd. They had for the gard 2 seam wood and 5 li of candells, being the day that the melecia was at Winmill. The Capt: of the gard had 2 seame wood to make bulletts. 24th. 2 seam wood, 2 li candells for the gard. At the same tyme ther wher 2 regiments in the Church, and had to buy wood, in mony 2s., and like had 2 li candells is. 13th May. Mr. Stokes notes "a warent to rayse horse, & the sending away of 2 warents for bringing in of provision." On the 15th Oswald Cornish charges "for riding to Weeke w th provision for the Armye 4s. ; and Henry Bennett "for riden after the army with provisions 2 dayes 4s." Lord Clarendon relates that on Monday, 15th May, 1643, Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir Bevil Grenville, with the King's small forces, marched from Launceston towards Stratton with a resolution to fight with the Earl of Stamford and the Parliamentary forces. He says that the Earl had with him a body of 1400 horse and dragoons, and 5400 foot, with a train of 13 brass ordnance and a mortar piece, and a very plentiful magazine of victual and ammunition ; while the King's army were so destitute of provisions that the best officers had but a biscuit a man a day for two days. The Earl of Stamford had encamped upon the top of a hill, now known as Stamford Hill, above Stratton. The King's troops were commanded by Lord Mohun and Sir Ralph Hopton, Sir John Berkley and Sir Bevil Grenville, Sir Nicholas Slanning and Colonel