Cookes Memoirs of Youghal written 1749, covering period 1635-1647

Published Journal of the Cork Archaeological & Historical Society, 1903
By Robert Day
Incomplete

1635.
Wm. Bluett
Maurc. Uniacke
James Gallivan
James Nagle was made sword-bearer, and was sworn accordingly.

1636.
Richd. Gough
Stepn. Coppinger
Ns. Nagle
John Walsh was appointed gunner of the fort, with a salary of forty shillings per year.

1637.
Js. Ronayne
Wm. Gough
John Gallivan
Adrian Coppinger was again made sword-bearer, in the place of James Nagle, who resigned that office.

1638.
Wm. Gough
John Bluett
John Hazard
This year there was ordered that no reeks or reek of furz shoud be made from abbey to abbey, under a pain of £3, to be levied by distress.
Jasper Collins was this year made sword-bearer, on the surrender of Adrian Coppinger.

1639.
Maurice Uniacke
Wm. Lewis
Nichs. Nagle

1640.
Thos. Stout
Walter Coppinger
Domk. Bluett
This year Michael Boyle, Dean of Cloyne, was admitted free, and Sworn the 26th day of October.
(Note: Michael Boyle, D.D., was son of Richard Boyle Archbishop of Tuam,
and was advanced to the sees of Cork, Cloyne and Ross by letters patent of King Charles II., 22nd January, 1660. He was consecrated in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on the 27th of the same month. And he was one of the twelve bishops who were consecrated all together in St. Patrick s Church after the Restoration.. Quite spent with old age, having arrived at his 93rd year, he died at Oxmantown, Dublin, and was buried on the next night, 1oth December, 1702, at eleven, in the Earl of Cork's tomb in St. Patrick's Cathedral, without pomp. – ‘Brady’s Record’s.”)
All lighters to cleanse the key every year.

1641. James Gallivan
Wm. Kerin
Nichs. Bagbare
March the first, Joshua Boyle was sworn Recorder of this town and a freeman at large.
The Great Plague in Dublin.

1642.
Thos. Stout
Domk. Bluett
Richd. Myers
No tobacco to be sold to the Irish rebels, for fear of spies, the Irish having a way of sending people in disguise to see what was doing in the town.
The same order was made in Cork and Kingsale, without especial order from the Earl of Inchiquin.

1643.
Thos. Stout
Domk. Bluett
John Miller
A proclamation, declaring certain money coined in Ireland, was sent down by the Lord Deputy and Council to be passable.

1644.
John Miller
Thomas Clove
John Bucknor
Captain John Boyle was presented with the freedom of this Corporation, which he kindly received, and was sworn in accordingly.

1645.
Thos. Stout
James Vandeleur
Thomas Taylor

1646.
Adam Warren
Thomas Warren
Robert Pratt
This mayor was a captain in the army, and never served as bayliff, as you may see from the following letter from Thomas Stout, late mayor, to the Earl pf Inchiquin
" Sep. 21, 1646.
Right Honourable,
We received your lordship's letter the 17th of this instant on the 18th day of the same, being then ready to proceed to election of mayor and bailiffs for the next ensueing year, whereby we understand your lordship's honble. intentions, as well for the preservation and continuance of the ancient customs and preheminencies of this our now poor distressed Corporation, and the support thereof by fitt and able men to manage this civil government, which hath us to proceed with greater comfort and alacrity in that affair, and according to your lordship's particular recommendation of Captain Adam Warren, we have, in respectful obedience to your lordship's desire, completed thereunto and elected him mayor for the subsequent year, notwithstanding that, according to the antient acts and customs
of the Corporation, the election hath ever been by free suffrages, and no other person called unto that place of magistracy unless one that had formerly served as bayliff, which antient custom we doubt your lordship will be pleased hereafter to leave free unto us, whereof we rest assured, in regard, we perceive your lordship's great care taken of us, for which we shall ever remain, your lordship's most humble servants.-
Thos. Stout, Mayor.”

1647.
Richd. Myers
Jno. Brishford
Thos. Farmer
Several letters were sent to the mayor from Lord Inchiquin to furnish stable and fodder for three hundred horses and quarters for the men, which was immediately complyed with. On the 12 day of August news was brought to this town of a great victory obtained over the Irish near Dublin the 8th of August. Coll. Butler, Coll. Warring, Coll. Plunket, Coll. Symons, Coll. Rochford, the Earl of Westmeath, and forty other officers taken, 130 serviceable horses taken, 240 horses killed ; the Earl of Fingall killed; four brass guns taken; 80 oxen that drew the carriages taken ; the pillage of the field valued at £50,006.

Oliver Cromwell.
Long Parliament