*5    «      *-.      '


xlviii    SCOTLAND  AND  THE  PROTECTORATE

Lilburne  wrote  to  Cromwell  in  October  1653,  saying  thqfc
he  found  the  fort  at  Ayr  *  in  very  great  forwardness  and  tiff
outworks  completely  built :  it  is  a  most  stately  thing  and
be  very  strong,  only  I  conceive  it  is  a  great  deal  too  lai
and  will  put  the  State  to  much  charge  in  maintaining  ii
(p.  257).     In  August  1655  it  was  still  unfinished,  but  Mom
thought  it  would  be  finished  by  the  following  summer,
which  date  it  would  be  necessary  to  spend  £9,50  per  moni
upon  it  (p.  303).     The  plan  of  the  town  and  citadel  given
this  volume  is  dated  1654.     On  the  back  of  the  original  th<
is  a  rhyming  inscription  by  the  engineer  and  author  of
plan:

'  When  Major  General  Richard  Deane,  in  chief  did  rule  Scotland,
And  Matthew  Allured,  Colonel,  this  West  part  did  command,
Hans  Ewald  Tessin,  Architect,  was  sent  this  to  erect,
Against  England's  foe  for  England's  Friend,  whom  ever  God  protect.  "X

The  garrison  of  Ayr  in  July  1657  consisted  of  seven  com—  -
panies  of  foot,  that  is  490  men  not  counting  officers  (p.  870r
cf.  Thurloe,  vi.  472).     Amongst  the  papers  in  this  volume  are
several  describing  a  riot  which  took  place  at  Ayr  in  1666
between  the  soldiers  of  the  garrison  and  a  regiment  about  to     j
embark  for  Jamaica  (p.  328).
Of  another  citadel,  that  built  at  Perth,  much  less  is  known.
